It is a heartbreaking fact that by the age of sixteen, more than two-thirds of children have experiences at least one trauma, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Understanding Child Trauma).
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Cue the band and get the fireworks ready, because you’ve finally made it to the end of 2021! Congratulations!
A lot has happened this year, and many of us are looking forward to 2022 with the hope that it will turn out much better than this past period.
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Mental Health is in a dire situation that has only been exacerbated by a global pandemic over the last 18 months. 61% of adults with any mental illness did not receive treatment nationwide.
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How we attach to our partners, friends, children, etc. as adults, depends greatly on the attachment that we formed with our caregivers during childhood. If we have secure attachments with our caregivers as children, we are more likely to form secure attachments as adults, likewise if our attachments to our caregivers are insecure or unstable as children we are likely going to carry that into our adult relationships as well.
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Repentance is an essential life skill to have, so let’s walk through the importance of repentance and give you some steps you can teach your kids, yourself, and others on making amends.
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Many of us with kids have started the dreaded digital learning/homeschooling! How has that been going? I won't lie, I am feeling the stress of being in a pandemic, digital learning, and life in general.
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When we use the word “abuse” or “abuser”, we conjure up images of monster-like people, but all of us are, at times, tempted to get our way through emotional manipulation. I use the word tempted, because it is actually very tempting and easy to use emotionally abusive tactics to achieve our own agenda.
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According to the CDC, approximately 1 in 4 women and 1 in 10 men report experiencing some form of “intimate partner violence” each year (Smith et al., 2018). In the wake of the global Covid19 Pandemic, domestic violence police reports have increased in correlation with the isolation required for quarantines (Boserup, McKenney, & Elkbuli, 2020).
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“So where does it hurt?”, your doctor asks you. Although we all attempt to avoid pain, the pain response itself is valuable. Without it, we don’t know when we need to rest, go to the doctor, or heal a wound.
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