A New Perception for Healing Domestic Violence
Written by Marilyn Redmond
It is time to treat the whole person including emotional and subconscious aspects originating domestic violence and move beyond the current theory of behavioral and book solutions. When treating the whole person results are effective and long term, not the usual shallow help. Growing into sanity and having a life of happiness, joy and freedom from domestic violence, when the root causes and conditions of this illness are understood and restored to health is possible.
The American Medical Association declared addiction, including domestic violence, a disease in 1956; however, this medical condition is not usually identified until a law is broken because of “denial” in addiction. A domestic violent relationship is only one aspect of this complex condition. Below the behavior, dis-ease may propel this situation from many medical, emotional, and spiritual difficulties. All of these can come into health with appropriate holistic counseling methods.
Marilyn Redmond, BA, CHT, IBRT and Registered Counselor, speaks, writes, and counsels from her experience of overcoming a thirty year battering and abusive marriage of rape. She discovered the dynamics and wisdom for recovery. “Assisting others is effective when it comes from experience. Treatment with a compassionate heart of understanding brings a magical wellness. It is a slow process, but worth the walk into reality.” She believes.
In addition, she knows, “Behavioral conduct as normally addressed is the tip of the iceberg. However, it is a sickness where the individual is acting out the pain of unconscious problems, often from childhood or trauma. Both parties in the co-dependent relationship attract each other in their excessive neediness for emotional survival. Only healing the whole person stops the recreation of the cycle with that partner or another. Statistically women have a better chance of recovery.”
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