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In the 37 years that I have been counseling individuals, I have worked with many people who have suffered from severe physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse in childhood. Many who have sought my help were suffering from fear and anxiety, depression, various addictions, relationship problems and sexual problems. Many of these people had no memory of their childhood and had no idea why there were so unhappy. Many had spent years in therapy yet had never remembered their abuse.

The reason they could not remember the traumatic events of their childhood is because the child or children within, who suffered the abuse, did not feel safe in revealing the abuse. These unconscious inner parts were protecting the person from reliving the horrible pain of the past. These inner children knew that the adult self did not have the strength to learn about and manage the information and the feelings.

In order to remember and heal traumatic events from the past that are affecting you today, you need to have a strong and loving Adult self who is capable of managing emotional pain. Without this loving inner Adult, you may get so flooded and overwhelmed with the feelings of traumatic memories that you cannot function.

The gentle, transformational Inner Bonding process that we teach is a process for developing this strong, loving Adult self. The loving Adult is the aspect of us that is connected with a powerful and loving Source of spiritual guidance – whatever this is for you. Learning and practicing the Inner Bonding process develops your ability to connect with your personal Source of spiritual guidance. It is your connection with your guidance that gives you the strength to manage the intensely painful feelings of childhood abuse.

Once the inner children who hold the memories feel safe that there is a loving Adult self who is capable of managing the feelings, you will start to remember your past. As these memories come up, you will begin to understand the conclusions you drew about yourself that are currently causing your pain. Almost all children who have been abused draw erroneous conclusions about themselves as a result of the abuse – false beliefs such as, “I’m not important.” “I have no worth.” “I am just an object for others’ use.” “I am not lovable.” “I should never have been born.” “I would be better off dead.” “I don’t deserve love.” “I am a bad person.” It is these beliefs that are causing your present pain.

Healing from childhood abuse is not just about remembering the past. It is about remembering the very good reasons you had for drawing the conclusions that are currently causing you such pain. It is about gently and lovingly acknowledging what happened that led to your present beliefs that are now limiting you. It is about learning how to access the truth from your spiritual source so that you can move out of lies that you are telling yourself that are causing your current pain.

Most of us learn to treat ourselves based on how we were treated and how our parents or caregivers treated themselves. When your parents abused you, they were also not taking loving care of themselves and were not role modeling loving self-care. As long as you treat yourself the way your parents or other caregivers treated you and themselves, you will suffer. Healing from childhood abuse is about developing your loving Adult self so that you can learn to treat your inner child or inner children the way you always wanted to be treated.

You CAN fully heal from childhood abuse, but only through learning to access and bring into your being the love, truth, wisdom and strength of your spiritual guidance. Through learning and practicing the Inner Bonding process, you will discover the incredibly beautiful and perfect essence within you – the part of you that was never damaged by the abuse. This is your true Self that will emerge as you heal the false beliefs of your wounded self. This is what will happen as you develop your loving Adult self through learning and practicing the Inner Bonding process.

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the best-selling author and co-author of eight books, including “Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?” and “Healing Your Aloneness.” She is the co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding® healing process. Learn Inner Bonding now! Visit her web site for a FREE Inner Bonding course: http://www.innerbonding.com or email her at margaret@innerbonding.com. Phone sessions available.

Obesity is becoming a major problem among kids today. As a parent, it is important to help your child lead a healthy lifestyle. Below is a list of healthy snacks you can quickly and easily prepare for your children.

Strawberry Kiwi Smoothie

Smoothie’s are an excellent snack for children of all ages. Their easy to make and their packed with vitamins and nutrients to keep you energized.

Ingredients:

3 peeled kiwi
1 cup frozen banana slices
3/4 cups pineapple juice
1/2 cups frozen strawberries

This healthy snack is quick and easy to create. Simply combine all of the ingredients into a blender. Pour in the liquid last and blend until you have reached the desired consistency.

The kiwi neutralizes free radicals in the body, helping to prevent a number of diseases. The banana provides plenty of potassium to maintain proper electrolyte balance in your body and help lower your risk of high blood pressure.

The strawberries provide are an excellent source of Vitamin C, which also helps eliminate free radicals from the body.

Strawberry Sunrise Smoothie

Ingredients:

8 ounces of vanilla yogurt
1/2 cups frozen strawberries
1/4 cups of apple juice
1 frozen banana (sliced)

This smoothie is the perfect healthy snack for any time of day.

In addition, it is also packed with nutrients. It contains plenty of protein for building strong mucles, Vitamin A to promote digestion and healthy eyes, and antioxidants to help eliminate free radicals throught the body.

The banana provides potassium to maintain proper electrolyte balance in your body and help lower your risk of high blood pressure.

Fresh Fruit Mixes:

Fresh fruit mixes are an excellent choice when looking for a healthy snack. Simply combine a variety of fresh fruit and you instantly have a snack filled with vitamins, minerals, and other health-promoting nutrients.

You can combine any number of fruits your heart may desire. Some examples include bananas, kiwis, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, cherries, and grapes.

Get creative and have fun. Living a healthy lifestyle is an adventure that will reward you every day.

Kim Roach is the fitness reporter at HealthyEveryDay.com, where you can find additional healthy snacks for young children, nutrition articles and high protein foods .

Obesity is becoming a rising problem among kids today. As a parent, it’s up to us to help our kids lead healthy lifestyles. Below is a list of quick and easy snacks that you can fix for your kids.

Fruit Kabobs:

Fruit kabobs are very easy to make. The first step is to gather your favorite fruits. Here are just some of the options that are available:

strawberries
watermelon
seedles grapes
banana slices
peaches
apple
oranges
cantaloupe
honeydew

Wash the fruit and chop up into a bowl. You can squirt some lemon juice on top to prevent browning. Then you simply place the fruit onto kabob sticks. Yogurt makes a great dip for your kabobs.

This is an excellent snack for kids.

Homemade Trail Mix:

If you are looking for a healthy snack while you’re on the go, homemade trail mix may be the perfect answer.

You can premake sacks of trail mix at home and pack them in the car or even at work. Simply combine almonds, raisins, dried fruit combinations, and a few chocolate chips and you instantly have a healthy snack.

Dried Fruits

Dried fruits are a healthy snack for any time of the day. They are especially convenient when you’re traveling.

There are a wide variety of dried fruits available, including raisins, cranberries, banana chips, cantaloupe, diced pinapple, strawberries, cherries, cranberries, and many more.

In fact, if you have a dehydrator, you can make your very own dried fruit.

These dried fruits are also great for mixing with nuts.

Kim Roach is the fitness reporter at HealthyEveryDay.com, where you can find additional healthy snacks for kids, nutrition articles and high protein foods .

Child Abuse
Every year, millions of children across the world are becoming innocent helpless targets of atrocities. They are the sufferers of ill-treatment, exploitation, and brutality. They are part of human trafficking to induce into prostitution rackets. In terror prone regions, they are kidnapped from their homes and schools and their innocent childhood is forced into the army to witness the brunt of cruelty. They are enforced into debt repression or other kinds of slavery.

The consequences of child abuse are overwhelmingly disturbing! It denies a child its basic right-education. While violence and abuse pose a threat to their life, it also offers more devastating adverse effects on their mental and physical health. Often it leads to homelessness, resulting in increased number of cases of vagrancy giving birth to a feeling of depression. To worsen the scenario, these victims are more likely to abuse their own children in future, thanks to the deep impact on their mind! And the cycle will continue for ever!!

Though the agony and the plight of these children remain suppressed in silence, the brunt of their exploitation is very real. Although, the whole world is morally fuming at the abuse children endure. Yet, protection laws against child abuse commonly meet with confrontation at all strata of society. The reason behind this is simple. Most forms of Child abuse take place in private and are linked with crime and corruption. It is simply observed as “secretly endured and openly denied”.

Several international standards and laws have been created and enforced for protection of child from abuse. However, massive loop holes are still there in their practical implementation. The situation has sadly remained status quo. Of late, UNICEF has identified and concentrated its focus on six special conditions in which children get abused.

Forced or Bonded Labor
International Labor Organization (ILO) has carried a survey that revealed a shocking statistic. An estimated 300 million children are exploited regularly as child labor. To worsen the fact, around 200 million children are compelled to work in perilous environments with least safety norms like mines or factories, or in the vicinity of dangerous substances such as chemicals and agricultural pesticides. There are some 6 million children working under particularly terrible conditions, including the virtual slavery of bonded labor.

Human Trafficking
The use of children as a service for the purpose of cheap labor or sex has become a rewarding trade around the world since ages. Every year, an estimated 1.2 million children are illegally trafficked for these heinous purposes. It is difficult to identify and locate as it is associated with isolated, underground activity like other forms of criminal activity. It is also related with the poverty of parents and often they are not aware of its hazards, believing that their children might have the chance for a better life outside their own poverty ridden lives. Frequently, trafficked children are detained and treated as unlawful aliens. In Asia and Eastern Europe, young girls from the age of 12 are trafficked in western Asia as ‘potential brides’ to satisfy the lures of few. Many girls are lured and then compelled to work in flesh industry every coming day.

Sexual Exploitation
Although it is hard to enumerate, around 1 million children including significant number of boys are exploited every year in the multibillion-dollar flesh trade. Commercial sexual abuse of children is often initiated and encouraged by local elements. Statistically, sexual tourism plays very minor role, contrary to the earlier perception. However, The Internet is emerging as the potential stimulator to promote child pornography globally and this has become a cause of concern. Studies have revealed that children are most often sexually abused by their closed ones.

Children who are used as soldiers
Reports of UNICEF studies have shown that around 2 million children have died as a direct result of war, armed conflict over the last decade. At least 6 million children are suffering from serious injuries or they are permanently disabled. At present, over 300,000 child soldiers, some as young as eight, are exploited in armed conflicts in more than 30 countries around the world.

Separation from parents
They are deprived of their primary means of protection. This category includes children who have lost their parents or care takers temporary or permanently due to varied reasons like outcome of war, orphanage, boarding schools, and psychiatric units. Separation from parents and family is usually detrimental factor to the overall physical and mental development of a child. In addition, induction in such institutions is quite risky. Involuntary separation from both family and community protection, greatly increases a child’s risk of exposure to violence, physical abuse and even death.

Violence
From schools to homes, various forms of punishments and torture are a common thing to locate. It occurs in every strata of community. The results are more disturbing. They carry this pain and burnt throughout their life. This type also carries the risk of life in certain cases along with permanent injuries.

It’s common to listen that parents want they kids do what parents couldn’t. This phrase includes different kind of situations. Some parents want they kids to be the best at something. For example, they want them to be best football player, the best doctor, the best lawer, etc, and they simply forgot about they kids feelings.

Nowadays, thanks to the new technologies, new services are appearing all along the net. Perhaps you never hear about that, but in the last years the online counseling and online therapy has became very popular between therapists and patients. This kind of professional assistance is meant to solve this, and a lot more, kind of problems. It can give you another perspective, another point of view, of this situation. The usual demands that online counselors receive are people who just want to have a professional point of view over an issue that are concerning them

Some people might feel that online therapy is not for them. What I can recommend you is just to try, you have nothing to loose since you will not have to move from your office or home and is much cheaper than the traditional therapy. On top of all these strong points, what I think is essential in the results we get when working online is the strength of the writing process. When one has the time to think about what is going on inside him/her, it gives a different perspective of us.

The most important thing here is to take online counseling as a regular therapy. After period of time, people could be able to find an enormous increase in their self-esteem. You shouldn’t rush into it without getting good advice in witch kind of service is better for you. Nowadays you can choose between e-mail, chat, telephone and video conference services.

Across the nation and around the world you will find hospitals that have oncology or cancer programs geared towards childhood cancer. Through research and trials, it is evident that the diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer is different than treating the disease in adults. For this reason, it is imperative when seeking cancer care for your child that you do research and make sure that you are going to the hospital that is right for your child.

Some pediatric cancer programs might concentrate on one or two types of cancers and treatments whereas others, such as St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, treat all types of childhood cancers as well as doing research and clinical trials. Before you choose a hospital to treat your child’s disease, you need to make sure that you are going to a hospital that will give your child the best chance in the fight against cancer.

When researching children’s hospitals and oncology programs or cancer care, you should have a list of questions that are relevant to his/her cancer and ask each hospital the same questions for comparisons sake. Questions to include in your research are to ask about research, clinical trials, success rates, number of cancer patients they see each year, whether they have ever treated a child with your child’s type of cancer, which cancers they specialize in, if they offer support groups and do they offer family-centered care which allows families to be a part of the treatment plan.

Since pediatric cancer care is different than cancer treatments for adults, many families opt to go to a children’s hospital for care. However, this is a very personal choice. Whether you choose cancer care at your hometown hospital or choose to travel and stay at a larger hospital, make sure that you are getting the best possible care for them that you can. Since you are their voice and their advocate, you have to do what you can to make sure that you are giving them the best opportunity to fight and beat childhood cancer.

Obesity is a well known problem amongst the adult population of many western countries but, much more worrying, is the alarming rise in obesity being seen in our children at younger and younger ages.

Obesity is typically assessed initially by eye and is then measured in terms of your body mass index (BMI) which is a simple calculation made using your height and weight. In the case of children however the rate at which an individual child grows, and the presence of such things as ‘puppy’ fat, mean that judging obesity simply by eye doesn’t work. Additionally, conventional BMI calculations don’t give a true result either and it is necessary to track BMI for a child over a period of time and to assess BMI measurements against a set of special charts produced by the federal government.

For this reason it is essential that your doctor measures and records your child’s height and weight as part of a routine check-up and that the doctor monitors the progression of these over time.Unfortunately, all too many doctors fail to do this, frequently quoting a lack of time as the reason, both in terms of the time taken to make the measurements and of the time taken to explain the child’s progress to the parents. Some doctors also feel that there is little point in counseling parents as their advice is often ignored.

Well, time or no time, it is part of your doctor’s job to monitor your child’s health fully and you have a right to expect that this will include monitoring your child’s weight. Whatever the doctor’s reason for not carrying out this work, once your child has put on too much weight it is extremely difficult to change the lifestyle habits that have caused this situation and to get that weight off again. Obesity is not simply a problem in itself but can be the start of a whole series of problems for your child including diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems. In the vast majority of cases however all of this can be avoided quite easily and part of the secret lies in knowing when the problem is developing.

So, next time you take your child to the doctor don’t be afraid to bring up the subject of BMI tracking and make sure that your doctor is giving you the service your child needs.

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