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Friday, June 12th, 2009
by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.
Domestic violence help comes in all shapes and sizes. There is the crisis hotline to get you where you need to go ASAP. Then, there are the community domestic abuse support groups that assure you that “you are not alone.”
Your domestic violence shelter will give you all the resources for your immediate transition from the danger you live to safe housing. They may even have a domestic abuse legal advocate that will help you with your legal matters.
But what about your psychological care, who will tend to that? …For full article, please visit: Domestic Violence Help – The 5 Essential Resources for Domestic Abuse Survivors
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
By Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.
Most of the time what people do to us is not about us; it’s all about them. But, when on the receiving end, we don’t see it that way. We assume it is because of us.
This is especially true of domestic violence survivors, who have become accustomed to believing other people’s actions toward them are their fault. It’s part of the indoctrination of intimate partner violence: “You made me do it.” “You made me say it, feel it, think it…”
For full article, please visit: Shedding Domestic Violence Survivor Habits: Who’s Fault Is It?
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.
Some wounds are so severe that words cannot capture their complete pain. Being pushed out of one’s children’s lives or the lives of your grandchildren is one of these.
When this is yours, the depths of it take your breath away. I hear women tell me the cries that come out of them over their initial coming to know this pain sound primitive…like a wailing animal.
For the full article, please visit: The Childless Scarlet A: Healing from Family Violence and Legal Domestic Abuse
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