Reports of Domestic Violence Across the U.S. are Increasing
June Volunteer of the Month: She’s Changing the World
Since last summer, Alice Miles has been volunteering as an outreach coordinator for Break The Silence Against Domestic Violence (BTSADV). She is passionate about what she does with BTSADV and what she does for her home community of Colorado Springs, Colorado. One of the most important things she has brought BTSADV is the understanding of […]
Dealing with COVID-19 Triggers
By Jenn Rockefeller The current COVID-19 pandemic has kept many domestic violence survivors in their homes and changed the way we live. These changes have elicited triggers that can bring a survivor through varying degrees of challenges while fighting to survive and thrive post-abuse. Triggers Survivors Face Domestic violence survivors will no doubt face numerous […]
How to Keep Your Children Centered During Upheaval
By MaryBeth Koenes As a life coach and mother, I have encountered a lot of parents asking for tools to help them not only cope with the recent routine upheavals due to COVID-19, but also to support their children’s mental and emotional health through the sudden, radical life changes. Whether it’s due to a global […]
I Still Have the Scars but I Will Always Wear Them with Pride
Criminal harassment, forcible confinement, assault, gaslighting, manipulation, psychological abuse are all terms that I had come across in my life. They were terms that I was familiar with on a need-to-know basis. As it turns out, I did not know enough about any of them until I somehow landed smack dab in the middle of it all.
