by CDVA Team | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog
By Raetha StoddardRaetha 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 overreact later in life, when even normal...
by CDVA Team | Jan 5, 2016 | 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...
by CDVA Team | Dec 28, 2015 | Blog
By Annie GeggisThis story from the Sun Sentinel of two girls living with their grandmother in Florida to escape their father’s violence and their mothers harassment illustrates the suffering and displacement experienced by children living in violent homes. Their...
by CDVA Team | Dec 23, 2015 | Blog
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 CDVA Team | Dec 21, 2015 | 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...
by CDVA Team | Dec 18, 2015 | Blog
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...
by CDVA Team | Dec 14, 2015 | Blog
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 CDVA Team | Dec 5, 2015 | Blog
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 CDVA Team | Dec 1, 2015 | 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,...
by CDVA Team | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog
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...
