If you have been through trauma, you may feel permanently broken, and like a lost cause. But feelings are not facts, and just because you feel like a lost cause does not mean that you are one. I truly believe that where there is life,…

PSTD stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Many symptoms that eventually lead to a diagnosis of PTSD are common in the first month after a traumatic event. It is if they persist longer than that month, and they cause a disruption to a person’s normal functioning…

2/19 quote “Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family looks like family traits. Trauma decontextualized in people looks like culture.” Resmaa Menakem is an author, anti-racist educator, somatic therapist. He is the author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma…

2/16 pic Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. As James Baldwin said, “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” This is…

Since February is Black History Month, I wanted to share some of my thoughts and my values. I believe that Black Lives Matter and that seeing race matters. It matters because how people are treated in this country is greatly determined by race. I strive…

We all walk around seeing people and the world through filters. This is because of how our brain works to categorize the huge amounts of information coming at us each and every waking moment. Without this automatic categorization life would become unwieldy and overwhelming. However,…