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Laurie Moran: Confronting Preventing Abuse And Addiction To Heal The Child
Laurie Moran Working To Heal The Child
We recently met an interesting and sensitive lady named Laurie Moran. She modestly introduced herself as a music teacher. Laurie is so much more. She is a former rock and roll band member who now plays music to heal the broken souls of children and adults who have been the objects of addiction and abuse. Laurie Moran is healer.
“There is a circle of love evident in the workshops…people are very present in telling and the healing takes place for them and for me.”~Laurie Moran
Laurie Moran is the creator and director of Heal the Child Program. More than ten years ago she and local therapist Dolores Schafer began delivering the spirit of hope from addiction and abuse through music. They put together an effective child abuse prevention and education project, along with formulating a music therapy program to instruct guidance counselors, parent groups, child development students, churches and community organizations how to help children and adults who are in pain.
Laurie Moran is a generous person who presents her original songs along with sharing her personal story of abuse to audiences across the country to increase awareness for the prevention of child abuse. In doing so she delivers a spirit of hope and healing through music.
Heal The Child, a child abuse prevention and education project as well as a training program for health care professionals, has at its heart the original music written and performed by Laurie Moran. Laurie accompanies herself on guitar and shares her personal experience, inviting audience participation. The musical program consists of songs about the pain of abuse but more importantly songs about the hope of healing and recovery.
Another important feature of the workshops is the prominence of talking. Abuse depends on silence. All around our nation problems such as juvenile crime, teen pregnancy and drug or alcohol dependency can be traced to a troubled child in a family where the children are instructed not to talk about family problems. There is it an inappropriate sense of loyalty associated with the “don’t talk” rule. By talking, the child is presumed to be breaking a trust, somehow betraying the family’s secret.
Heal The Child project teaches parents, teachers and all those adults who have an influence upon the lives of the children, the significance of establishing a safe culture for all of our children to talk, to verbalize, to speak to someone when they believe they are being mistreated.
An added extra is that Laurie’s sharing offers hope, support and a vision of healing that begins with breaking the silence.
Children who come from dysfunctional abusive families often as they grow into adulthood exhibit low self esteem, difficulty establishing healthy boundaries, inability to express feelings, shame and confusion about family loyalties, and ignorance about what a healthy family life is.
One of the great benefits derived from the Heal The Child Project workshops is that parents, adult survivors of child abuse discover they are not alone in their suffering. They reveal they can find acceptance guidance and a genuine hope for change with support.
The Heal the Child program creates an opportunity for dialog for a variety of audiences including teens, parents, teachers, child care advocates, counselors, graduate students and adult survivors.
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