by Valerie | Feb 11, 2025 | Childhood Trauma
The Negative Consequences of Trauma-Induced Hypervigilance Plus Ways to Heal from Trauma The brain is designed to be aware of potential dangers in your surroundings. While it helped early humans survive, our brains aren’t meant to be in this excited, sensitive state...
by Valerie | Jan 28, 2025 | Childhood Trauma, School Resources
How to Break the Cycle of Trauma and Bullying Experiencing trauma alters the brain, shifting the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. Bullying can also have lasting impacts on everyone involved. But it goes deeper than just the surface level behaviors and effects....
by Valerie | Jan 14, 2025 | Childhood Trauma
Defeating the Cycle of Trauma and Finding Healing in Safe, Positive Relationships If you are a parent of a child with trauma, your child may have recently received a diagnosis of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Or perhaps you are an adult recently...
by Valerie | Dec 31, 2024 | Childhood Trauma, Parent Resources
Treating Unresolved Childhood Trauma in Adults to Break Intergenerational Trauma Cycles Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, can have a profound impact on our brains and bodies as kids. These effects can last well into adulthood, like a scar. Left untreated,...
by Valerie | Dec 10, 2024 | Childhood Trauma
Behavioral and Health Effects of Trauma Plus How to Get Help Traumatic events can happen to us at any age. Unfortunately, those effects can stay with us for a lifetime if that trauma is not properly worked through and healed. In today’s article, I’ll be taking a look...
by Valerie | Nov 26, 2024 | Childhood Trauma
Studies of Childhood Trauma, Causes, and What We Can Do to Deal with Childhood Trauma The term PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, is a more recently coined term, however, that doesn’t mean that PTSD hasn’t been around for a long time. It wasn’t until after the...
by Valerie | Nov 12, 2024 | School Resources
Plus Ways to Build Positive Relationships in Your School Teachers and administrators in schools have so much to think about and do. It seems like the to-do list is never ending and almost overwhelming at times. But it is so important to take a beat and to reflect on...
by Valerie | Oct 29, 2024 | Guest Interviews
Adoption isn’t always what you might think, and I’ve seen this firsthand. On the latest episode of Her Desired Haven with LaShaundra, I had the chance to share my journey through adoption, including the challenges and lessons that come with parenting kids who’ve...
by Valerie | Oct 29, 2024 | Childhood Trauma, Parent Resources
Transforming Despair Into Hope: A Guide for Families Dealing with the Complexities of Managing Challenging Behavior As parents and caregivers, we want to make sure that our child is equipped to lead a fulfilling life. But when your child is working through trauma,...
by Valerie | Oct 8, 2024 | Childhood Trauma, Parent Resources
Plus Tips to Help Them Through This Sometimes Chaotic Time of Year Many of us view the holiday season as a time of joy and love. But for children with trauma, that often isn’t the case. The holiday season brings extra stressors and triggers for your child with trauma....
