When we talk about TRAUMA AFFECTED children, we are very often talking about children who live in homes where COERCIVE CONTROL is being used. ✨ "using children" is a MAIN tactic that Abusers use to ✨GAIN AND MAINTAIN power and control over the sobreviviente ✨obviously seeing your parent being physically abused will cause trauma ✨if one's parent/caregiver is being abused they DO NOT have the bandwidth to parent so very often children are both neglected and actively abused ❣️I really feel that building community around the sobreviviente is ESSENTIAL for reducing the effects of trauma on children. If a parent is supported and safe then they are better able to meet their children's needs.

Welcome @Matthew O'Brien !!! I am SO excited to have another ESD (now I know what it stands for!!) practitioner on skool!! I am excited to talk "shop" with you and discuss the benefits of self defense as a TRAUMA PREVENTION and INTERVENTION modality!! Can you tell us a bit more about your experience with ESD? How long have you been practicing/teaching? Why did you start? Do you teach classes to all women? Do you teach only physical skills? If it, what else do you teach?

I was amazingly blessed to study self-defense with Nadia Telsey!! She wrote a book in her last years and I am so happy to pass on her theory, her information and the skills she taught me over the 5ish years that I actively trained and worked with her. Check out this article, written specifically about Nadia and her "brand" of Women's Empowerment Self Defense.