Trans and LGBTQIA+

This is a quote Elyn Saks who a professor of Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School She is also diagnosed with Schizophrenia and has written about her experience in the book The Center…

We all experience stress and we all blame it on something, and to some degree this is true. But it is also very true that the stress comes from how we respond. And I would also argue that it is our thoughts, our feelings and…

This is always a good reminder that each of us carries around a story that others do not see. This is true for all of us. So, I encourage you to not judge a book by its cover and remember that we each carry hurts…

How often we ignore our bodies and what it wants and needs. Sure, in the normal course of things people eat when they are hungry, drink when they are thirsty and rest when they are tired. But our society is not set up to let…

For whoever needs to hear this today….you are enough. So many of the women (and the men) that I work with have a deep and abiding belief that they are not enough. Often, they learn this lesson early in life in their families. That lesson…

I think that there is a misconception and a skewed expectation that working through one’s traumas leads only to peace, and acceptance and forgiveness.  And there is certainly value in those experiences. As I mentioned in a previous quote, anger is a necessary emotion and…