by Valerie | Feb 28, 2025 | Parent Resources
How to Prepare Children with Trauma for Graduation Season Graduation marks a significant change in life and that can come with some big emotions for students and their families. As graduation season draws near, many are excited to celebrate their accomplishments. But...
by Valerie | Feb 25, 2025 | Childhood Trauma, School Resources
8 Benefits of Being a Trauma-Informed Organization Typically, places that provide care and support, such as healthcare organizations, are accustomed to adopting a trauma-informed ideology. And while some schools have adopted trauma-informed care, there are many that...
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...
