Month: October 2019

Tomorrow, October 4th, I have the distinct privilege to sit down for an interview with Treshia Coleman, a social media influencer and dear friend in Birmingham, Alabama.

Treshia’s brand includes a social media presence “Talk to Treshia,” and last year, we agreed to discuss Treating Trauma Beyond Triage during October 2019, the month we focus nationally on domestic violence.

As a survivor of domestic violence, I know the lingering pain associated with physical and emotional abuse. What has fascinated me during my personal quest for healing is how people are transformed following trauma to experience Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG). Treshia and I are talking about PTG during our conversation tomorrow—particularly as how it impacts victims of domestic violence and their families—and we are going to explore the concept of the Transitional Character.

A transitional character, defined by the late marriage and family scholar Carlfred Broderick, is a person who, in a single generation, “changes the entire course of a lineage. This is a person who is said to break the cycle that has asserted emphatically “the sins of the fathers are visited upon the heads of the children to the third and fourth generation.”

Their contribution to a healthier legacy than the one to which they were born is nothing short of astonishing to me. Broderick dramatically describes the act of standing in the gap to heal a family legacy of abuse, addiction or abandonment as the choice of an individual to somehow “metabolize the poison and refuse to pass it on to their children.” Incredible.

I hope you’ll search Talk to Treshia or Treshia Coleman on Facebook and Instagram and follow her. I sincerely hope, if you’re interested in some of what I’ve described as a preface to our conversation tomorrow, that you’ll download the talk and have a listen.

Best wishes to your own healing! Please be well.

Thanks so much, Y’all,

Doc