By Brian F. MartinAre you growing up in a home or did you grow up in a home where you faced adversities? Because if you experienced adversities like physical abuse, Childhood Domestic Violence, emotional abuse, neglect, or any others, the holidays are often confusing...

By Melissa JeltsenJane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro recently produced a documentary about domestic violence, revolving around the murder of his mother by her estranged boyfriend. Domestic violence murders are shockingly common, and deeply affect the friends and...

By Brian F. Martin Many people who grew up with domestic violence in their childhood home become lost to depression or to a pervading SADNESS that prevents them from reaching their full potential in adulthood. That sadness is a very real and natural reaction to the...

By Matt HamiltonSyed Rizwan Farook, one of the two San Bernadino shooters, grew up with a violent father. His mother applied several times for divorce and domestic violence protection, in these applications she described the physical and emotional abuse directed at...

By Theresa SingletonTheresa Singleton, veteran of the YWCA, discusses how domestic violence erodes the fabric of our society. After working in the field for 25 years, she discusses the adverse effects DV has on children, who's trauma prevents them from performing the...

By Stephanie March, Guest BloggerWhen I was a kid, my parents went through an incredibly nasty divorce. So much anger and hostility was displayed between them that it left me scrambling to be the peacemaker. I quickly learned that this was an impossible task and...

By Karen PautzThis article from the Siskiyou Daily News reviews research that traumatic experiences, like witnessing domestic violence, produce a long lasting stress response. Babies, children and youth who witness domestic violence are chronically stressed. The chaos...

By Grant DoepelThe Blaze covers INVINCIBLE and the Change a Life program. More than half of the children who are currently experiencing childhood domestic violence are being raised by adults who lived through the same experiences as children. It is a vicious cycle...

We're all aware of the cliché that there’s nothing to fear but fear itself. Any person who experienced adversity in childhood, however, would beg to differ. We each discovered all too well the many things there are to fear. But fear can also be seen as a valuable ally...

By Kelly WallaceCNN's Kelly Wallace discusses the impact domestic violence has on children in the wake of the Ray Rice case. 90% of children in a domestically violent home report knowing about the violence. Exposure to domestic violence is associated with significant...