Standing Tall: Transcending Family Violence

Neuroscience is continually presenting new research that demonstrates the devastating and often long-term effects of the trauma of family violence, on the brains and bodies of people of all ages.
Trauma has been described as “one of the West’s most urgent public health issues.” Bessel Van Der Kolk (2014). “The body keeps the score.”
Barbara Jordan documents her twenty years of living with a violent husband and raising children with a violent father. Forty years after leaving him, Barbara still held pain in her body and mind, from his relentless control on the family’s life and from the physical and psychological abuse she received, feeling lucky to have survived. Damaged, but alive.
This is Barbara’s story of delving into the research on violence and trauma, to gain her own clarity on unanswered questions.