Loving the Wounded Child

 

If you have landed on this site looking for trauma-related topics and discovered not everything falls into that category, or, if you are here for the non-trauma-related content but are suddenly seeing lots of posts about it, that is because I have merged two sites together.

(If you are looking for LTWC posts, select Adoption, Foster Care, and Trauma Parenting from the category search bar, or click here to get started)

Loving the Wounded Child was my passion project for a couple of years with the goal of supporting families raising children who have experienced early childhood trauma, through a relatable “normal parent” perspective, instead of the professional perspective that can be harder to relate to– especially in the midst of children’s behaviors exploding all around.

There is a lot of information about childhood trauma out there, but I didn’t feel it was easily accessed or understood by parents who were right in the middle of the fire. I decided to use my many hours of research, training, and experience (and title of “normal parent”) to try and help others who are raising children who have experienced traumatic events and lifestyles.

Adoption and Foster Care

Many children who fall into this category are adopted or are in foster care. Children of divorce also tend to have differing levels of traumatic histories, so those categories of families were my main readers at Loving the Wounded Child.

Even though I am passionate about helping people understand children who have been impacted by trauma, writing consistently for a blog only focused on those things isn’t always easy.

Additionally, keeping up two blogs can be time-consuming as well as expensive, so when it came time to renew Loving the Wounded Child, I had to make the hard decision to transfer posts over to this site and permanently shut down Loving the Wounded Child.

I believe in living lives of purpose, and for the last few years, a huge part of my “on purpose” living has been adoption, foster care, and Safe Families for Children. But for now, I’m shifting lanes a bit and expanding my writing to more topics, but I hope those who need the adoption, foster care, and trauma-related posts can still find them nestled into this site which is going to focus on a wider variety of topics surround brokenness and healing.