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What Does Long-Term Family Violence Do to You?

By Kathy Broady MSW 15 Comments

    What happens when you live with violence for years of time? When violence happens every day, or every other day, or every week? How do you cope with that much fear and chaos? How do save yourself from falling into a deep, dark depression? What happens to your sense of trust? What do you do with your own huge feelings? What if you are trapped in that situation and don’t know how to remove … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, Featured post #1, Physical Abuse, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, sexual abuse, Trauma Tagged With: Domestic Violence, Effects of chronic violence, Emotional Abuse, Family Violence, Leaving violence and abuse, Living in chronic violence, Living with a Violent Narcissist, Making a safety plan, Physical Abuse, Safety First, Separating from abusers, You don't have to be hurt anymore, You need safety

The Emotional Container of Abuse

By Kathy Broady MSW 5 Comments

  Emotional abuse. This is a complicated topic.  It's a topic I've tried to explain to many dissociative trauma survivors many many times.   The concept of emotional abuse can be hard to grasp.  This is because the trauma survivor often internalizes the perpetrator's offensive verbage, believing it to be true.  But it's not true.  Not at all. In this article, I will describe one example of the dynamic of a … [Read more...]

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Land of the Free?

By Kathy Broady MSW 9 Comments

For folks in the USA, it’s the July 4th holiday weekend.  Barbecues, picnics, swimming parties, and fireworks are happening all over the country.  Red, white, and blue stars and stripes are visible in every direction.  It’s a fun holiday – most people are in festive moods.     The point of the Independence Day holiday is to celebrate freedom.  It’s about being free, living in a land that is free, … [Read more...]

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Remembering Annemaria

By Kathy Broady MSW 57 Comments

  There is a young woman who will always be precious to me.  I haven’t spoken to her in years, but she forever changed my life.   Just in being herself, Annemaria gave me my very first introduction to Dissociative Disorders.  She changed my life.  Absolutely and completely. This date – October 23rd --  had specific meaning for her. And every year on this date, I specifically think of her. The story … [Read more...]

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Safety First – Recognizing and Leaving Domestic Violence

By Kathy Broady MSW 10 Comments

      Hello, hello,   Tonight at 9 pm CST, I will be presenting on BlogTalkRadio. You are welcome to listen to the radio show or to participate by calling in.  I’ll be glad to hear from you! For more information, please go to blogtalkradio.com/dvmemorial   Safety First - Recognizing and Leaving Domestic Violence (part 1) Domestic Violence (DV) is a form of sexual and … [Read more...]

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