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A Simple Way to Build Healthy Connection with Your Kids

Connection is key for building healthy relationships for all of us but is especially critical for helping our trauma-impacted children heal. Research has shown that what has been broken in a relationship can be healed through healthy relationships, and this requires a deep connection. However, sometimes it is just plain hard to connect with children who have strong emotions and big behaviors.  It is not… Read More »A Simple Way to Build Healthy Connection with Your Kids

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Prevention is Best: One Way to Help Lower Childhood Trauma Statistics

A fire has been slowly kindling in the adoption, foster care, mental health, and medical communities for some time. ACEs, which stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences, has been quite a hot topic in these areas. As these groups of people have become more aware of ACEs, Childhood Trauma, and their devastating impact on our children, more research and training have been spreading with the goal… Read More »Prevention is Best: One Way to Help Lower Childhood Trauma Statistics

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When the Holidays Hurt

When the Holidays Hurt Truly, the holidays can be challenging times for many. In a season where family, love, and life are celebrated, the lack of those very things becomes more apparent than at any other time. Broken relationships taunt and sickness torments us when all we want is to experience the festive joy in which we see others basking. Christmas cards showcasing adorable children… Read More »When the Holidays Hurt

About “Loving the Wounded Child” Trauma-Related Posts

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… Read More »About “Loving the Wounded Child” Trauma-Related Posts

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Using Play in Healing Childhood Trauma

For kids from hard places who have had chaotic, deeply distressing, and highly stressful experiences in their early years, the language of play may not have had a chance to develop. Instead, they have become fluent in the language of hyper-vigilance, anxiety, fear, insecurities, anger, and survival.

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Bible Memorization for Children: Overcoming Fear {With Printable}

Equip your child to overcome fear Sadly, children who have experienced adverse childhood events are often prone to have ongoing anxiety and fears. Some of the fears may come at odd (to us) times and may even seem irrational. But rational or not, if our children are anxious and afraid, we should do our best to equip them with tools and strategies to calm themselves… Read More »Bible Memorization for Children: Overcoming Fear {With Printable}

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The Nitty-Gritty Truth About Trauma Parenting

(The following is based on my own experiences as well as many conversations I’ve had with adoptive parents. This is not meant to guilt anyone, merely to offer a perspective with the hope of spreading a little understanding) Parenting a child with a trauma history is hard. Incredibly hard. But unless you are in the inner circle of the parents, you likely have NO IDEA… Read More »The Nitty-Gritty Truth About Trauma Parenting

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The Spiritual Side of Relational Trauma

This post contains affiliate links. You may see full disclosure here. Body|Soul|Spirit Humans are incredibly complex beings. We were created with an intricate body made up of amazing parts and systems. Inside this body lives a soul comprised of mind, will, and emotions, and a spirit in which resides our deepest meaning, purpose, and eternal selves. All of these parts are beautifully interconnected inside the breathtaking… Read More »The Spiritual Side of Relational Trauma

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The Importance of Forgiveness in Healing Trauma

When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive. –Nelson Mandela Parenting children from hard places is difficult for many reasons, but one of the most challenging parts is living with the behaviors, wounds, and pain in our children that are a result of the abuse of someone else. We live in the aftermath and it isn’t pretty. The wounds… Read More »The Importance of Forgiveness in Healing Trauma

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How to Discipline a Child With a Trauma History

 I’m honored to introduce Christian mental health therapist, Melissa Gendreau, as she contributes her wisdom and advice on the tricky topic of disciplining children who have experienced trauma. Welcome, Melissa! This post contains affiliate links. You may read full disclosure here. Tips for Trauma-Informed Discipline Discipline is a difficult topic in the best of parenting situations. Everyone has an opinion on what to do and how… Read More »How to Discipline a Child With a Trauma History