Answering Your Questions About Childhood Trauma and Healing

Including how trauma occurs, the impact it has, and how to heal from it

We are two sisters who weren’t supposed to be friends.

We grew up in a home with abuse, addiction, and untreated mental illness. The dynamics in our household pitted us against each other, but we came together in adulthood to heal our relationship and break the cycle for our own children.

Now, we are drawing on our personal and professional experiences to help others find healing.

We have spent our entire adult lives learning about childhood trauma and abuse. Ronni earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan (specializing in family studies), teaching and researching about family violence for 40 years. Jennie received her degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Vanderbilt University and has spent nearly 30 years in private practice, helping others heal from the mental and physical health consequences of childhood abuse.

We are starting this community to give you a place to ask any question you have about childhood trauma and abuse.

So many people are doing good work in this area—raising awareness, creating spaces for people to heal from the trauma they experienced. We see ourselves as part of that effort. But even now, many people know very little about childhood trauma—what it is, exactly, how it happens in families, the impact it has on people across their entire lives, how to heal from it, or how to support someone who is trying to heal. There is so much to know, and we want to help everyone understand the issues surrounding childhood trauma and abuse so that we can all be part of solving this problem.

What we do will be driven by you!

We will post information about childhood trauma and abuse on a weekly basis—the content will be driven by what YOU want to know. So get involved—let us know what you’d like to learn. We take every question seriously because whenever you have the courage to ask, you help others learn, too.,

It’s easy to subscribe.

Just click on the “subscribe” button (above or below), and share this with anyone you think would be interested in this topic. Frankly, we all should be interested because, as you will learn, we are all affected by childhood trauma, even if we don’t experience it directly.

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