WHEN PARENTS ARE TRAUMA INFORMED THEY ARE BETTER EQUIPPED TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN HEAL
How Does Childhood Trauma Affect Health?
“The single most important thing we need today is the courage to look this problem in the face and say, this is real, this is all of us.” – Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
What is Brain Health?
What is a Trauma Informed Parent?
This is being a trauma informed parent.
A Trauma Informed Parent:
- Understands that an event does not have to be catastrophic in order to be “traumatic” and that symptoms of trauma can manifest following any highly stressful experience that causes lasting emotional or physical effects.
- Is better equipped to help their child cope with and rise above trauma related health issues or post-traumatic stress
- Appreciates their children’s unique temperaments recognizing that while a divorce to one child may be a bump in the road, to another it can be devastating.
- Is aware of ACES: (Adverse Childhood Experiences Study) and knows where to find help should their child’s score warrant attention.
- Knows that post-traumatic stress can mimic other issues such as ADHD, emotional outbursts, body aches, isolation, social problems and poor school performance.
- Understands that the effects of trauma may not reveal themselves for months or even years after an event has occurred.
- Is better equipped to communicate with and guide their child’s physicians in diagnosing and treating health issues.
“High stress affects the part of the brain responsible for judgement, memory, reasoning and problem solving.”
“Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma”
“Just like children emotions heal when they are heard and validated.”
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
“The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive.”
“Trauma remains a much larger public health issue, arguably the greatest threat to our national well being.”
“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us to survive the experience fairly intact, that is, without becoming psychotic or frying out one of the brain centers. The cost of this blown circuit is emotion frozen within the body....
“Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic.”
“The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.”
