October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and author Brian F. Martin is on a mission to move beyond "awareness" and into healing for adults who grew up with domestic violence at home. His book "Invincible: The 10 Lies You Learn Growing Up with Domestic Violence and the Truths to Set You Free" was published just in time to help this year's domestic violence awareness campaigns make a real difference.
Martin's approach is not simply an academic one. He grew up in a home with domestic violence and has devoted his career to learning about its life-long effects and how to deal with them. In Martin's most recent blog post, he says "... those of us who grew up living with domestic violence learned it was easier to stay silent most of the time. However this is one of many lies we learned; now it's time to embrace the truth." Traditionally, domestic violence is one of those topics that people just don't talk about, even years later, as adults. In more recent times, it has been brought to light in published memoirs and dissected in clinical work. What's missing, though, is a way for adults who were victims of domestic violence to unlearn the lies they accepted about it as children.Videos