If you do not know what normal looks like, how can you ever gauge your past or your future? You must find your ground zero and from there, all things are possible. Your normal is different from my normal as it is just as different from everyone else’s. Therefore, for “Norm Therapy” to be effective and the victim further understand why they are standing out in the snow with three children, no place to go, a bloodied face while saying to themselves, “It must have been something I did wrong to make him hit me!” The victim normalizes their tragedies based on the lies of accepting a beating affecting their children with the abuse witnessed and not being their own backup plan for their life. ARO is not a shortcut. “Norm Therapy” is a deep dive into everything true, false, or fantastical about their chronic or acute abuses: good or bad.
From there, our clinicians, counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists can build on the truth instead of spending years attempting to get the victim at the truth even before they can begin to help them. They say that the truth will set you free. Not for one day in Kelly’s life did she ever believe that until now. And that is Kelly’s journey.
Can you see the value in what we are trying to accomplish?