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IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
In addition to pointing out your partners strengths, the best thing you can do for your ACOA is to share your own past and ask for help figuring out the sources of your adult behavioral patterns.
Douglas Bey M.D., R.N. Bey Deborah • Loving an Adult Child of an Alcoholic
Three Parental Responses A tremendous challenge stands before foster and adoptive parents while caring for a traumatized child. There are three main elements in parents’ responses to their child’s trauma and behavior: 1. Believing and validating their child’s experiences 2. Tolerating their child’s affect (emotions) 3. Managing their own emotional
... See moreBetsy Keefer Smalley • Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
Robert Hoge: A Beautiful Life Beyond Appearance
Moi Jamri • 10 cards
Well-intentioned parents who try to raise their children in a bubble of satisfaction, protected from frustration, consequences, and negative emotions, may be harming their children.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Though Marius’ healing was full of myth and drama, the key to resolving his trauma was in acknowledging and regaining his heritage as a competent, resourceful human being.
Peter A. Levine • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
if there is ever a struggle to meet goals, provide assistance without blame.