Julie Beem
Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Trauma, Treatment
The story
By now you may have read the headlines such as “YouTuber Myka Stauffer Reveals Adoption Dissolution 2 Years After Welcoming Son Home from China.” You may have even viewed the original adoptive parents’ tearful YouTube video about the “rehoming” of their son,
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Laura Dennis
Posted in Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Trauma
The Challenge
Have you ever heard of NaNoWriMo? It stands for National Novel Writing Month. The idea is to write 1,667 words per day for the month of November. At the end, you will have a text roughly equivalent to the draft of an entire novel. Writers who reach 50,000 words “win.” I am one of those writers.
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Laura Dennis
Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapies, Trauma
Winter break always gets me to thinking, and this time it has me pondering the implications of raising a child diagnosed with RAD. I don’t know if all the things I have done to help my child will bear long-term fruit for him, but I am increasingly aware of just how much they have done for me.
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Lorraine Fuller
Posted in Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Trauma
Last week on the blog, I told you a little about what life was like with my son with complex early trauma. I talked about the lying, the stealing, the fear, the things we did to protect ourselves and him. And I told you that once he turned 18,
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Lorraine Fuller
Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapeutic Parenting, Trauma
I have moved into a new phase in life, especially my parenting life. My last child has moved out of the house. Another child visited for the summer, so we didn’t experience a true empty nest immediately. Yet it is still a new phase–the child who moved out last was our child with an alphabet soup of diagnoses.
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Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Therapies, Trauma, Treatment
As a trauma and emotion-centered psychotherapist, I am relieved that children are now being screened for toxic stress. Thinking about mental health as a byproduct of a child’s environment is an important addition to current thinking on how to improve children’s wellbeing. Rushing to diagnose a child with a potentially stigmatizing label,
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Cissy White
Posted in Attachment, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Therapeutic Parenting, Trauma
[original version published on Parenting with ACEs on June 5, 2016]
There are many adults with low ACE scores who parent children with high ACE scores. These parents are often feisty and fierce advocates who tirelessly seek out support, strategies and solutions to make the lives of their children easier and better.
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Laura Dennis
Posted in Book Reviews, Our Voices, Trauma
1) There are (at least) 2 kinds of being brave. One is an illusion in which we tell ourselves a version of events that we would like to be true. The other is the real deal. It involves facing our fears head on and living to tell the tale.
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Laura Dennis
Posted in Attachment, Book Reviews, Therapies, Trauma
–by Laura Dennis
I don’t know about you, but parenting a child who has suffered trauma and been diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder can bring out a side of me no one should ever see. I’ve yelled far more than I care to admit (it’s a miracle I still have a voice with which to speak) and I’ve locked myself up to cry.
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Julie Beem
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–by Julie Beem
In early October I fell and broke my left knee cap (annihilated it into pieces is a more accurate description). The skillful surgeon put Humpty Dumpty back together again, but I was ordered to remain immobile for six weeks while my old bones decided to knit back together.
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