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Responding to Your Child About Body Safety (John Cardamone)
What happens in the moment a child finally says something is wrong?
For many children experiencing abuse, it takes years to speak up - if they ever do. And when they finally tell someone, the response they receive can shape the rest of their healing.
In this powerful conversation, Dr Justin Coulson speaks with body-safety educator and survivor John Cardamone about what children actually need to feel safe enough to disclose abuse - and the critical mistakes adults often make in the first moments after a child tells them.
John shares his own experience of abuse as a child, the two years it took…
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