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By CDV What Independence Means After CDV For many who grew up with Childhood Domestic Violence, independence becomes a survival strategy. It often means self-reliance, emotional distance, and refusing to depend on anyone else. After years of unpredictability and unmet...

How CDV Fosters Isolation and Distrust Children who grow up in homes with domestic violence often learn that connection isn’t safe. When caregivers hurt each other or fail to protect the child emotionally, the message becomes clear: don’t trust, don’t rely, don’t let...

By CDV Growing Up with Domestic Violence Teaches Us to Resent If you grew up with domestic violence, you learned several lies that taught you to feel resentment and to depend on that feeling for a sense of power or control. Yet, resentment only shackles us to reliving...

By CDV Childhood Domestic Violence Can Make Us Feel Guilty Guilt can seem like a simple word. Yet, it speaks to a complex family of emotions. These include embarrassment, a sense of culpability, a feeling you should have been able to stop it, shame because there is...

By CDV Our Past Traumas Can Follow Us Anger and domestic violence are an unfortunate pairing, but all too common. You don't have to live with the past. You don't have to live in anger. You don't have to live with the damage of domestic violence. You can know, accept,...

By CDV "Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.” – Friedrich Nietzsche What is Resentment? Resentment seems like an obvious emotion, but to fully understand it, we must look at how it’s connected to the other lies we learned as...