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Healing Inner Children From 'Hard Places'

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Channel: Mark Smith Family Tree Life Coaching · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Mark Smith shares about the powerful work of Dr. Karyn Purvis, an expert in healing abandoned, traumatized children.  

Mark E. Smith, MSW is the Founder and Director of Family Tree Life Coaching. He previously worked as a highly respected therapist and author in the Indianapolis area for 32+ years. He now practices as a Life and Relationship Coach. He offers coaching for individuals, couples, families, family businesses, executive leaders, pastors, and therapists. He has world class coaching expertise in Affair Recovery, Relationship Issues, Narcissistic Abuse Syndrome, Sexual Addiction, Abuse, Trauma, Complex PTSD, Anxiety, Mid-Life Issues, Shame and Abandonment Issues. If you need a safe, courageous, cutting, marriage-jolting healer, he is your guy. You can contact Mark Smith at [email protected] and 317-507-8866.

Here is a link to Dr. Karyn Purvis' Barn Swallow story...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vjVpRffgHQ

Healing Children From Hard Places
• OnSite - Trauma Stage Processing
• Laurie Lokey, Onsite Intensive Trauma Specialist & Bill Lokey, Onsite Clinical Director
• Barn Swallow Story!!!
• A bath of connection, empowerment & nurturing
Obituary - Karyn Sue Brand Purvis - 66, an internationally-renowned child development expert, popular speaker, author and passionate advocate for vulnerable children, died Tuesday, April 12, 2016, after a valiant fight with cancer. 
Dr. Purvis was the co-founder of the Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, the creator of Trust-Based Relational Intervention and a passionate and effective advocate for children. She coined the term "children from hard places" to describe the children she loved and served, and those who have suffered trauma, abuse, neglect or other adverse conditions early in life. 
Her research-based philosophy for healing harmed children centered on earning trust and building deep emotional connections to anchor and empower them. 
She was a respected researcher, demonstrating how a child's behavior, neurochemistry and life trajectory can change given the right environment. Among parents, she was an authoritative speaker and writer and trainer. Many adoptive parents, who marveled at her innate ability to playfully connect and see the real heart of a child, revered her as a "child whisperer." 
To the thousands of children whose lives she touched, she was warmly known as "Miss Karyn, the queen of bubble gum!" "If I could tell you my dream for every child in the world, it would be to imagine a world where the cry of every child is met by 11 compassionate adults," she once told an interviewer. "Giving voice to children is the heart and soul of what we do." 
She spent 30 years of her life raising her own sons and ministering alongside her husband.  At age 47, as her sons began college, Karyn returned to school to complete her undergraduate degree. Karyn added Ph.D. to her title as a psychologist - at the age of 53. 
Dr. Purvis and her mentor Dr. Cross teamed up to write their acclaimed book, "The Connected Child," and to create a holistic, comprehensive, research-based approach to healing vulnerable children called Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). In just over a decade under Dr. Purvis' leadership, the message and teachings of the Institute have increased exponentially to reach an audience spanning the U.S. and more than 25 other countries around the world. 
What mattered most to Dr. Purvis was seeing real change and healing in the lives of children and their families. She believed passionately and fervently in the power of hope, knowledge and prayer. "I had strength from my faith and I had the confidence that serving children was my calling," she told an interviewer. "If I have planted, and farmed the soil well, those who come after me, and after them and after them, will be wiser and more well-equipped and more able to continue our mission, which is not rhetoric for our Institute," Dr. Purvis said. "We truly are learning to change the world for children.”

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