Lizbeth Meredith

When personal tragedy led to a meaningful career, I thought I'd found my professional happily -ever-after. It turned out that work trained me for more hard times ahead when my daughters were kidnapped, and the collateral damage (and a graduate degree) helped spark training new employees in probation and led to a best-selling memoir, resulting in healing and contentment.

While working in juvenile probation and training to instruct on trauma-informed care, I understood at once the residual damage done to my own daughters after leaving domestic abuse, and had to recalibrate in my approach to help them heal.