by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
My Future Is as Bright as I Want It to Be – The CDV Foundation Taught Me ThatBy Chelsea Waldroup, 16 years old Former child of domestic violence featured in documentary “The Children Next Door”It’s the elephant in the room – the intense emotions of being torn between...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | Resilience
A 16-year-old who grew up experiencing adversity in childhood said this to Brian Martin several years ago, and he included her story in his book, Invincible: The 10 Lies You Learn Growing Up With Domestic Violence and the Truths to Set You Free. Thinking about this...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | Resilience
The same adversities you faced in your childhood home that led you to believe LIES about yourself also allowed you to develop skills and abilities that others don’t have. These skills — or gifts — are inside each of you and are found by replacing the...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | Resilience
Every day we have opportunities to unlearn lies we may have learned. Many of the lies that we believe about ourselves were seeded in childhood. Especially if you grew up in violent home. A home in which the violence could have been physical or nonphysical. Those...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | Resilience
No one wishes to have had a difficult or painful childhood. Such adversity scars people for life. Yet if you grew up living with domestic violence, you were forced to develop skills, awareness and abilities that can set you up for immense success now and into your...
