New Blog for Survivors of Child Abuse

Its purpose is:

•  to encourage survivors by learning healing is possible and the child abuse cycle can be stopped,
•  to support the acceptance of a disorder diagnosis for mental illness resulting from child abuse
•  to seek specific studies developed to help survivors of child abuse,
•  and share healing information and experiences for adult survivors. 

Artist: Amylee Weeks

Since 2008, I have been writing a blog "Abuse and Trauma - hope and healing", to share my healing struggles and real life experiences while I was going through the healing process. Now I feel it is important to be more specific in the audience I wish to reach.

Developmental Trauma Disorder 

Development Trauma Disorder has been proposed by therapist/counselor to be a specific classification of a psychological disorder. Being a survivor I am very encouraged that a unique classification is being considered so that research, funding and specific treatments/assistance will become available for adult survivors of child abuse.

When adult survivors are targeted for help and healing, the cycle of child abuse can be stopped one person at a time but each person helped dynamically effects a entire new family and coming generations.

My dream is for this blog to be one of many starting places for adult survivors of child abuse to:

• gain hope, 
• be encouraged to persevere through healing, 
• to find help for problems uniquely common to survivors and 
• to feel safe to share with others who have been hurt by repetitive, pro-longed abuse and trauma by a family member or someone trusted with the child's wellbeing.

If you would like, please feel comfortable to share information, ask questions, and introduce yourself (and your blog/website) to others who come to this blog.

Be hopeful, healing is real. The nightmare can stop. Adult survivors are being setting free from their abusive childhood past and learning to love and be loved.