Monarch Therapeutic Services, LLC
I LOVE YOU AND I AM LISTENING
I Love You and I Am Listening is a guided meditation to affirm, strengthen and deepen Parent/Child connections. The class is especially empowering for families where parent(s) and/or child(ren) have experienced abusive trauma. The class is open to ages 12 & older. Adult/Adult as well as Adult/Youth pairs are welcome.
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I Love You and I am Listening
Program Type: ~ Group Group Size: ~ Min 5 pairs ~ Max 10 pairs Participants: ~ Any Sex ~ Parent/Child Pairs ~ Adult/Adult ~ Adult/Youth ~12 yo & up Program Venue: ~ OnLine/Videoconferencing Meetings: ~ Class Repeats Monthly ~ Last Mondays 7p-8p 2020 Meeting Dates: ~ Oct 26 ~ Nov 30 ~ Dec 28 Program Cost: $25 due at registration Payment Options: Prepayment Required ~ Cash ~ Credit/Debit ~ PayPal Click Here To Register |
How Trauma Impacts Families Traumas are frightening, often life-threatening, or violent events that can happen to any or all members of the family. Traumas can cause traumatic stress responses in family members with consequences that ripple through family relationships and impede optimal family functioning. All families experience trauma differently. Factors such as children’s age or the family’s culture or ethnicity may influence how the family copes and recovers. For some families traumatic stress cause them to feel alone, overwhelmed, and less able to maintain vital family functions. Risk factors contributing to family instability generally include prior individual or family psychiatric history, history of previous traumas or adverse childhood experiences, increasing life stressors, conflictual or violent family interactions, and social isolation. Parental stress, isolation, and burden can make parents less emotionally available to their children and less able to help them recover from trauma. Families dealing with high stress, limited resources, and multiple trauma exposures often find their coping resources depleted. Their efforts to plan or problem solve are not effective, resulting in ongoing crises and discord. Families that “come together” after traumatic experiences can strengthen bonds and hasten recovery. Extended family relationships can offer sustaining resources in the form of family rituals and traditions, emotional support, and care giving. Parent-child relationships have a central role in parents’ and children’s adjustment after trauma exposure. Protective, nurturing, and effective parental responses are positively associated with reduced symptoms in children. |
Parent-Child Relational Bonds
The parent-child relationship is one that nurtures the physical, linguistic, emotional, psychological, and social development of the child. Children who have healthy, secure bonds with parents more readily regulate emotions under stress and in difficult situations, exhibit optimistic and confident social behaviors. A secure parent-child bond lays the foundation for the child's personality, life choices, and overall behaviors. A consistently loving, nurturing relationship with a parent or other caregiving person who is involved in a child’s life over time is the single greatest resource for a child’s healthy development and recovery from exposure to family violence and other trauma. Safe and nurturing relationships among parents, intimate partners, siblings, and extended family members—as well as neighbors and faith-based group members—are protective and help families recover and grow. |