This video features several brave women who talk honestly about their years of suffering abuse from their adult children. While still maintaining an ability to speak about their son's strengths and achievements and express their love, they tell the stories of how they came to recognize that due to their son’s actions they could not have the relationship they wanted and how they went about changing it.

“I’m free!” is the common refrain from many of the women you’ll meet in this video. They provide insight into what helped them along the way and convey how much their mental health providers helped them by listening non-judgmentally instead of offering advice. Slowly the women discovered they were not alone and did not need to continue holding onto the immense shame they felt.

For many of the women in the video, some in their nineties, it was jarring to their sensibilities to think they needed therapy. The mental health provider must have this clearly in mind when connecting with the elderly. In this video you’ll come to see how engaging with older clients who’ve experienced abuse can differ from the client who signs up for treatment and shows up each week at your office. You’ll witness how change can happen even in later life.