by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 29, 2023 | dreams, Facing fears
The matter of suffering and our desire to somehow avoid it in life has been very present lately as my awareness has been heightened by my own and others’ experiences…. I talked to someone who told me she’d had a dream in which her abuser, no longer...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 19, 2023 | counseling
Have you considered that family and friends are “first responders” in relational abuse and violence generally? Healthcare providers and clergy are often the next line of contact to detect, educate, counsel or refer the abuser and the victim. By the time...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2022 | Suffering
9/28/2022…. Taliban “refugees” sexually assaulting female US military troops ON OUR OWN bases here in the US. ….. Do you not see the degradation and disdain they are showing for our nation, everything about our way of life, including any professed faith in God,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 3, 2022 | action, counseling
When a child is silenced by threats of harm to his/her loved ones by an abuser or a parent chooses to believe and stay with an abuser because of her co-dependent needs instead of her responsibility to her child’s protection or even accuses her child of seducing...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 12, 2022 | addiction
WARNING: Content may be distressing…… Today’s continuing education webinar on PTSD vs. Schizophrenia was both interesting and disturbing. The role of early childhood trauma in PTSD is unequivocal, although the symptoms may not appear until years...