Can Adults Who Grew Up with Domestic Violence Build Healthy, Loving Relationships?
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 loving...
Service to Others: A Path to Healing & Personal Growth for Children of Domestic Violence
“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...
Millions of American Children Witness CDV—So Why Isn’t Anyone Talking?
How Many U.S. Children Are Affected by Childhood Domestic Violence Every year in the United States, around 5 million children live in homes where domestic violence is present. These children are not only directly exposed to conflict between caregivers but often bear...
Learning Love After Childhood Domestic Violence
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...
Growing Up with Domestic Violence Makes You Stronger
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...
Give the Ultimate Gift This Holiday Season – the Gift that Keeps on Giving!
The Holidays are a Time for Gifts Every year around the holidays, we engage in the tradition of gift-giving. We gift to our loved ones, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances the gifts we believe they deserve or the precious tokens we think will enrich their lives and...
From Parent to Parent: A Message about Childhood Domestic Violence
Contributed by Ann Cuthbert Livingston Parents Have a Part to Play in Ending Childhood Domestic Violence I write these words to you…my fellow parents. I write them, not as a professional or someone with a degree, but as a mom of 5 children who were a part of this...
CDV PROFILES: FORMER CHILDREN, FUTURE CHAMPIONS
In the Spotlight – Roger Lockridge Lewisburg, WV Child Advocate Fitness Expert & Writer, Bodybuilding.com Memories of Violence at Home Can Follow You Through to Adulthood Some of Roger’s earliest memories, dating back to the early '80s, are memories of the many...
Roger’s Story
“My life almost ended on that hot August night. But it didn’t. And that night helped me figure out what I WASN’T going to be and what I WASN’T going to do with my life. And what I WAS going to be and do.” Growing up with Domestic Violence We were at home – a place...
What is the Neurobiological Impact of Violence in Childhood?
By guest blogger Caroline Abbott Growing Up in a Violent Home Affects the Development of Your Brain I came upon some articles recently that describe the neurobiological effects of experiencing violence in childhood. According to one article, when a child experiences...