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Spiritual Affirmations for Your Children {with printable}

Nurturing the soul Sometimes it’s easy to get so focused on nurturing our children physically and emotionally that we forget how important it is to nurture their souls! It’s essential for all children to be affirmed with truth, but even more so for children from hard places. People who have experienced trauma often develop low self-esteem, have a negative self-image, and feel terribly insignificant. These beliefs… Read More »Spiritual Affirmations for Your Children {with printable}

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Trauma, Self-Blame, and a Death Wish

The Death-Wish “Mommy, when can we die? I really want to die.” The question pierced my heart, the quiet statement jarring my very soul as it came from the mouth of my three-year-old child. Questions swirled in my mind. Three years old…and he wants to die?! How does he even know what death is? What’s going on inside of him that death seems the way… Read More »Trauma, Self-Blame, and a Death Wish

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Trauma Parenting: Where to Start When You’re Overwhelmed

Are you new to Trauma Parenting and feeling a little lost? Like all adoptive (and foster) parents, you’ve spent countless hours preparing to bring a child/children into your home. You’ve finally completed the time–consuming process of the application paperwork, the home study, creating disaster plans, attending training classes, more paperwork, and the placement process… Now the whirlwind is over, your child is finally home, and you’re… Read More »Trauma Parenting: Where to Start When You’re Overwhelmed

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Brain Food: Using Nutrition to Support Brain Healing

Brain Food: A foundation for healing trauma. Not only do chronic stress, anxiety, fear, and trauma have a negative impact on mental health, they can also have a major effect on physical health. When experienced chronically, stress depletes the body of Vitamin C and causes inflammation throughout the body, including in the brain and digestive tract. (To learn how inflammation negatively affects brain health, readThe… Read More »Brain Food: Using Nutrition to Support Brain Healing

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Understanding Childhood Trauma

Trauma Childhood Trauma Developmental Trauma. Complex Trauma. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Have you heard these terms and wondered what they are or if they’re the same thing? Maybe you’ve never heard of some of them, or perhaps you’re well-versed in trauma. In general, most people fall somewhere in between and have only a vague idea of what trauma is. Often, people hear “trauma” and envision… Read More »Understanding Childhood Trauma