Helping Domestic Violence’s Youngest Victims

Helping Domestic Violence’s Youngest Victims

By Amanda Cuda Connecticut State Government Pursues Legislation Increasing Punishments for Those Who Perpetrate Domestic Violence In Front of Children A Connecticut state government task force convened to investigate the effects of domestic violence on children. Their...
Witnessing Domestic Violence can have Lasting Effects

Witnessing Domestic Violence can have Lasting Effects

By Raetha Stoddard The Effects of Toxic Stress, CDV, and PTSD Raetha Stoddard for the Conway Daily Sun discusses toxic stress, CDV, and provides a basic explanation of the phenomenology of PTSD. Repeated and extreme stress in early development primes the brain to...

Campbell’s Story

By C. CampbellOne year ago December I packed my three boys in my car and drove cross country from California to Florida not knowing were I was going or how I would get there. Just knowing were I was headed was going to be better than my present position. 3 months...
Traditional Holidays After a Non-Traditional Childhood

Traditional Holidays After a Non-Traditional Childhood

By Brian F. Martin Adverse Childhood Experiences can Twist the Meanings of Holidays Are 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,...

Muyesser’s Story

By MuyesserHi , my name is Muyesser, a child, teen, woman never survived.There was blood on the walls, and broken furniture, three of us in different corners of the room terrified, frozen, mom could not fight back, we never screamed or asked for help because there...
3 Tips to Overcome the LIE of SADNESS You Learned from CDV

3 Tips to Overcome the LIE of SADNESS You Learned from CDV

By Brian F. Martin Childhood Domestic Violence Teaches Us a Lie: Sadness is Inevitable and Deserved 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...
Symone’s Story

Symone’s Story

“Sharing my story in INVINCIBLE was the beginning of a new journey into myself. I know through being vulnerable and opening up to you, that we both are healed.”As a child, I believed many of the LIES children of domestic violence learn, like feeling Worthless,...
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