by CDVA Team | Mar 12, 2014 | Blog
The answer is absolutely! Growing Up in a Violent Home Skews Your Sense of a Healthy Relationship Growing up in a home with domestic violence, one’s perception of a healthy, functional relationship becomes incredibly skewed. Instead of seeing adults who are...
by CDVA Team | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog
“By channeling our energy towards something bigger than ourselves, we discover our own strength, and our energy comes back to us.” (from chapter 3 of my upcoming book). Sometimes the Best Thing You Can Do for Yourself is to Help Someone Else By transforming your...
by CDVA Team | Feb 25, 2014 | Blog
Experiencing Domestic Violence in Childhood is All Too Common, but Is Still the Unknown ACE 5 million children in the US alone grow up living in homes with violence every year. 5 million children all have something in common that defines their lives for years to come...
by CDVA Team | Feb 13, 2014 | Blog
Many Who Have Lived in Violent Homes Feel Alone and Unloved Even as Adults With Valentine’s Day just a day away, many children of domestic violence are painfully reminded of how alone and unloved they felt growing up. Many still do to this day, believing one of the...
by CDVA Team | Jan 27, 2014 | Blog
People Reacted in a Lot of Different Ways to the Truth of My Childhood 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...
