Child Abuse Affects Us All
Did you know that child abuse affects everyone in a community, in multiple ways? This episode features Jennifer Meyer, talking about the many ways abuse affects our children. You will learn: 1. The correlation between child abuse and mental illness. 2. How and why abuse continues from one generation to the next. 3. When anger is a healthy emotion and when it is not. 4. The effects on a child when witnessing one parent abusing the other. 5. Abusiveness in teenage relationships. A study guide as well as all the resources related to this episode are available at www.hopefuldawn.com/podcast Jennifer Meyer, M.A., is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), National Certified Counselor (NCC), and owner/CEO at Jennifer Meyer Counseling, LLC in Fort Collins, Colorado. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Northern Colorado with an emphasis in Clinical Counseling, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Colorado State University. Jennifer is experienced at working with adults, adolescents, children, couples, and families. In addition to Jennifer’s direct experience with counseling clients, she has managed a counseling team, worked in corporate settings, served as a teaching assistant at CSU, and has served in leadership capacities at universities and on a preschool board. Jennifer has delivered anti-bullying presentations to middle school students in the summer Fashion FUNdamentals program at Colorado State University, and she enjoys counseling victims of abuse and bullying so that they can heal and rewrite their stories through an empowered, resilient lens. In addition to Jennifer’s role as a counselor, she is a parent and step-parent to three lively teenagers, and understands firsthand how challenging it can be to parent wholeheartedly and with a steady goal of instilling important values. She enjoys helping adult clients conquer parenting challenges and brings a fun but accountable approach to her work with adolescent clients. Jennifer also works with blended families, LGBTQ-dentifying clients, and adults of all ages looking to improve their lives and overcome adversity, particularly those who have been in abusive relationships. Host Dawn Day has a BA in Psychology and has worked as a gifted and talented teacher, a counselor in a group home for emotionally disturbed boys, a tutor in a psychiatric hospital, and a video producer who has interviewed over 600 people in her career. She is a mother of three daughters, all of whom have suffered from depression and suicidal thoughts and attempts. She is the author of Helpless Night, Hopeful Dawn: Staying Positive and Proactive When Your Child is Suicidal. Ten percent of proceeds from the book will be distributed to anti-suicide programs through her Shine the Light Fund. Find out more about Dawn Day’s mission at www.hopefuldawn.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dawn-day/support
