By CDV Have You Ever Felt a New Connection Fall Apart? Have you ever started to forge a connection with someone, only to have one or both of you shut down the connection as you began to open up? As I mentioned in my previous post, this happened to my wife and me....
By CDV Children Can Make a Difference in Their Parents’ Abusive Relationship Did you know that when children speak up about domestic violence, their parents are more likely to consider stopping their violent behavior? Studies have shown that simply knowing the...
By CDV Childhood Domestic Violence Teaches Us Lessons We Don’t Need to Live With We learn 10 pervading lies while growing up with domestic violence. I discuss each one in my book Invincible. In this blog post, however, I want to particularly highlight the lie of...
By CDV Why is Childhood Domestic Violence so Unknown? As we face society’s relative silence around children living with domestic violence and the adults who grew up with it in the past, it helps to also consider why adults might choose to remain silent about any...
Childhood Domestic Violence Doesn’t Have to Limit Your Success Did you know that some of the most accomplished and celebrated people grew up living with domestic violence? As we begin to look at the unsung gifts of adversity, I want to acknowledge those in the...