child trauma

Three Ways Trauma Shows Up in Children Living With Coercive Control

Protective parents often notice changes in their children that are hard to explain to others. The child may seem more anxious than before. They may withdraw. They may insist everything is fine when it clearly is not. Sometimes they seem emotionally distant in ways that don’t match who they used to be. These changes are …

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When Abusers Turn Children Into Weapons

Introduction For protective parents, nothing matters more than their children. That’s exactly why abusers target them. When coercive control doesn’t stop at you but spreads into your child’s world, the pain feels unbearable.  You watch the person who once eroded your sense of safety now trying to do the same to your child. And because …

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