by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
Childhood Domestic Violence is the last unknown, unnamed, unaddressed major childhood adversity of 10 major Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) that researchers agree can have a profound, defining impact on a life. Although it impacts an estimated 1 in 7 people and...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
This may be the first time you’re coming across the words “child of domestic violence”. You may be wondering what these words mean or if you might be one of them. This question may have never entered your mind until now. But now that you’ve seen these words in this...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
Most people have heard the words domestic violence. They know what it is, or at the very least, they are aware it exists.When we say “domestic violence” the words that most typically come to mind are women, abuse, pain, and violence. Children rarely come to mind. Less...
by Brian Martin | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
The groundbreaking “Dr. Phil” episode featuring Makers of Memories that focused on the impact of childhood exposure to domestic violence will re-air Tuesday, March 20th. It originally aired January 16th on CBS affiliates nationwide, receiving a tremendously positive...
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 within each of you and are revealed by replacing...
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...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | Resilience
“I understand that I cannot control the thoughts and actions of others. But I can exercise the ultimate control – control over the meaning of any situation – control over myself. When I am in control of my thoughts and my feelings and my actions, nothing is more...
