Are you a parent helping your children heal from an abusive parent?

Or a therapist looking for ways to help tweens, teens, and adults heal from being abused by a parent?

You have a new Transformational Journaling™ tool to help. Through a Child’s Voice: Transformational Journaling™ released last week.
The Focus Points™ in this journal are designed to walk children ages 11 and up through their story of living with an abusive parent. The “Focus Points™” came from the themes of stories written by children at http://CourageousKids.net.

My humble thanks go to the children who shared their stories, their pain, and their triumphs. You are truly precious children who never deserved the abuse and mistreatment at the hands of your parent and the Family Courts. Your stories are a shining light to children still caught in the trap of living with an abusive parent. There is an end to your suffering and a time for healing to create a life of happiness and peace.

How to help children use this Journal

Make this journal a special book for your child. Write their name in it when you give it to them. Explain what they share on the following pages is their voice. They are free to keep it very private, share it with you or other trusted adults, or use it to make a public declaration through http://CourageousKids.net.

There is room to write their story, draw their feelings, or use in any way they find expresses their experience.

For younger children, they may need some help to understand the “Focus Points™”. A word about what “Focus Points™” are. “Focus Points™” are designed to help the writer focus their thoughts and feelings by giving a starting point to begin writing. When my daughter was young, we used to create stories by one of us starting a sentence and the other one completing it. This is also a good way to give your children an example of how they can work with their journal “Focus Points™”.

Make your example fun and interesting for your child. For example, you could say, “one day a Mommy and her little girl went…” Then, the child would finish with “to the park to play on the swings. The little girl liked to…” Then, the mommy would finish with “swing as high as possible and try to touch the sky. The little girl would ask her mommy to …” I know you have the idea now.

In healing and living a peace-filled and joyful life,
Dr. Debra

P.S. A portion of the sales of this book are donated to Protective Parents organizations.

P.P.S. The book is available as a download or in paperback from the distributor. Go here for your copy.

Watch for the launch of the new Transformational Journaling™ book especially for ages tweens and up.

“Through a Child’s Voice: Transformational Journaling™” will be released soon.  From the back cover of the book:
This journal is dedicated to all the Courageous Kids who are still in abusive homes or have returned to their Protective Parent. Your stories are valuable lessons about a system that failed you when your voice was silenced.

Dear Parent,

This book is a guide to help you help your children write their childhood story about living with an abuser. This Journal is for children removed from the caring and protection of their protective parent and placed in the care and primary parenting of their abusive parent. This journal allows children to write their story as a record of their journey to document what occurs in their lives after parental separation/divorce.

Dear Courageous Child,

This book is for you to tell what happened in your life. Write about your life before your parents separated. Write about your life after your parents separated.  Everyone has a different story about their life.  You may even find your story different from your brothers and sisters. There is no right or wrong way to go through your life. It is just how it is for you, and no one else.

In healing and living a peace-filled and joyful life,

Dr. Debra

P.S. Keep checking back to find out about launch events.

P.P.S. Your story is very important to tell the world.