When your child rewrites history: False allegations and distorted narratives

The topic for this listening and learning circle will be:

When your child rewrites history: Preserving psychological integrity in the face of false allegations and distorted narratives.
With Karen Woodall

Wednesday 8 July 2026
This seminar will be delivered on Zoom between 17:00 and 19:00 UK Time.

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Cost £40.00 (including tax)

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About this listening and learning circle

One of the most shocking experiences for parents living through attachment disruption and coercive family dynamics is hearing their child describe a version of history which bears little resemblance to lived reality. 

Parents often speak of the moment they realise that family memories, relationships, experiences and even their identity as a parent are being rewritten in front of them. Loving care becomes recast as danger, boundaries become abuse, ordinary parenting becomes evidence of harm, and the parent themselves can begin to feel disoriented, destabilised and emotionally overwhelmed. 

In this Listening Circle, Karen Woodall will explore the psychological and neurobiological processes which can lead children and young people to internalise distorted narratives about a parent, including the impact of fear, loyalty conflict, attachment pressure, splitting and trauma based alignment. 

Together we will think about: 

• Why children can come to believe narratives which do not reflect lived reality
• The impact of coercion, anxiety and attachment fear upon memory and meaning making
• False allegations and the emotional impact upon parents
• Gaslighting, self doubt and the erosion of parental confidence
• Why arguing with distorted narratives often intensifies conflict
• How to preserve psychological integrity whilst living with misrepresentation
• Therapeutic parenting responses which reduce pressure rather than escalate it
• The difference between defending yourself and maintaining emotional truth 

This is not a legal advice session. It is a psychologically informed reflective space for parents seeking to understand what is happening to their child, and how to remain emotionally steady whilst navigating one of the most painful experiences a parent can endure. This Listening Circle offers a professionally facilitated reflective space in which parents can think more clearly about the psychological processes affecting their child, whilst remaining emotionally supported and clinically informed.

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About Karen Woodall
This series is delivered by Karen Woodall and is based on her successful work with alienated children over fifteen years. Drawing upon her psychotherapeutic experience as well as her research and direct work with alienated children in recovery, Karen offers you a unique insight into the world that the alienated child inhabits whilst helping you to understand how to build a path for the child to walk upon to return to you. Beyond that, Karen will assist you to understand the alienated child in recovery and their unique needs for longer term therapeutic parenting which helps them to integrate all of the lost parts of self. The wealth of knowledge and experience of direct work with families to help them to integrate and recover from this serious trauma that Karen offers, makes this series an experiential, warm and effective opportunity to create your own positive outcomes for your alienated child(ren). Karen's new parenting handbook, The Journey of the Alienated Children, will be published by Routledge later in 2026.