Tag: parental alienation
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Emotional Abuse Is a Silent Epidemic — Especially in Parental Alienation Emotional abuse is one of the most harmful yet invisible forms of trauma a child can experience. When it takes the shape of parental alienation, where one parent manipulates a child into rejecting the other, it leaves long-lasting wounds that shape everything from identity…
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In coaching and leadership today, being trauma-informed is more than helpful — it’s necessary. This is especially true when working with survivors of narcissistic abuse or parental alienation. Trauma doesn’t stay in the past. It lives in the body and brain. As Dr. Bessel van der Kolk says in The Body Keeps the Score, trauma…
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Discover the emotional impact of parental alienation through Lisa Goodpaster’s powerful memoir Alienated, a must-read for parents, therapists, and advocates navigating high-conflict divorce and child trauma. Every so often, a book comes along that hits you straight in the heart — and Alienated: When Parents Won’t Parent by Lisa Goodpaster is one of those rare…