& 5 Ways to Reduce That Impact! Growing up with trauma or abuse has a huge impact on our adult relationships. Who we pick, how we relate and what we expect are all impacted by the relationships we experienced growing up. We learn how to have a relationship through experience. If we experience safe, healthy […]
Healing CSA: Women Also Sexually Abuse
Women Also Sexually Abuse When we think of someone who would sexually assault a child we, think of a man. And often we would be right but not always. Women are believed to perpetrate 5-15% of childhood sexual abuse. That’s 3100-9300 children each year*. Unfortunately, these victims find that there is less belief in the […]
April is also the National Month of Hope and National Volunteer Month!
Many people know that April is Child Abuse Prevention and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Fewer people know that April has dozens of designations. The two I will focus on are: National month of Hope and National Volunteer Month. I am doing this because it can be depressing when we are faced with the fact that […]
Why is Shame so Harmful
Growing up in a home where there is violence, abuse and/or neglect can lead to a child internalizing a belief that they are somehow bad, dirty, worthless, or the cause of all the bad stuff that happened in their childhood home. This can be the root of our adult feelings of shame. Brene Brown (a […]
What Happened to you: More about ACEs and Trauma Informed Care
More about ACEs and Trauma Informed Care Did Oprah’s short report last night on the impact of childhood trauma leave you wanting more information? Did you miss the 60 Minutes episode but would like to learn more about the topics that Oprah called life changing? This week’s blog is on the two key aspects that […]