by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | Resilience
“The worst guilt to accept is an undeserved guilt.” –Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged If you grew up living with domestic violence, you likely carry with you a false sense of GUILT – a false sense of shame. You believe that you are somehow guilty or that you have something to...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | Resilience
Only those who have suffered can truly understand what suffering feels like. If you grew up in a home with domestic violence, you understand suffering. Because you endured this pain and fear as a child, you have a unique gift: an enormous capacity for compassion. You...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | Resilience
Did you grow up in a home living with domestic violence? That question doesn’t get asked very often, but we must ask it of ourselves and of those we care about. Because if the answer is yes, you should know that it has an impact on a life. 1. Did your...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | Resilience
When I tell people that I grew up in a home where there was severe domestic violence, I get a few different reactions. For some, it’s pity – “Oh. poor you. How did you ever survive that?” For others, it’s disbelief – “But how could you have grown up like that? You’re...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | Resilience
By Ann MastenAnn Masten’s study of resilience in development reveals surprising conclusions on the “ordinariness of resilience” – “Resilience does not come from rare and special qualities, but from the everyday magic of ordinary,...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | CDV In The News
This April, I was inside a high-security prison. The plan was to discuss the work that CDV does with the men and educate them on the connection between childhood adversities and their potential impact. While I believe I educated them, they also educated me. Here is...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | CDV In The News
Dr. Shanta Dube’s Aggregate Research Experience and Knowledge on the Profound Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Will Help Optimize Interventions & Positive Outcomes Among Those Exposed to Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV) in Metro Atlanta ATLANTA,...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | CDV In The News
Andrew Bret WallisJanice Holly Booth discusses CDV, INVINCIBLE, and the Resentment, Loneliness, and Fear lies with founder Brain F. Martin on the AARP website. In this interview, Brian discusses the lies associated with Childhood Domestic Violence: 1. that you are a...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | CDV In The News
Special about Childhood Domestic Violence Accomplishes Three Critical Goals Read the Hollywood Reporter article We could not be more honored to have had the opportunity to work with Nickelodeon in the creation of the Nick News with Linda Ellerbee...
by CDVA Team | Jun 24, 2024 | CDV In The News
“It was very unpredictable, we didn’t know what to expect…I believe my mom stayed because she wanted to make it work.” – Chelsea Waldroup “When my parents would fight, to me that was normal because I didn’t know what a normal parent was at the time.” – Emily Waldroup...
