Through a Child's Voice: Transformational Journaling(TM)

Through a Child's Voice: Transformational Journaling(TM)

This book is a guide to help your children write their childhood story about living with an abuser. This Journal/Workbook is for children removed from the care 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. Debra Wingfield, Ed. D. developed Transformational Journaling to help her counseling clients with child abuse and neglect issues, adults and children from all types of dysfunctional family systems, domestic violence victims, offenders, and child witness/victims. She is an author, speaker, trainer for child abuse and family violence programs. Help kids heal from abusive parents. 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. The Focus Points™ in this journal are designed to walk children ages 11 and up through their story of living with an abusive parent. 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 With over 40 years training therapists and counseling children and adults who experienced child maltreatment and family violence, Dr. Wingfield now educates and trains professionals, community members, advocates, and therapists on domestic violence/coercive control and family violence, and the impacts of child maltreatment. She is the author of From Darkness to Light: Your Inner Journey, a workbook to help adults heal from child maltreatment and family violence; Dr. Wingfield was a faculty member at Regis university teaching psychology and counseling courses. She developed and taught a domestic violence counselor training curriculum at the University of Southern Colorado from 1994 - 2001.