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In watching a session from the recent EMDRIA Summit, the presenter, Dr. Paul Miller shared an excellent quote from Karl Menninger that really resonated with me and is at the core of how I approach trauma work. “An individual having unusual difficulties in coping with…

I am a big fan of fantasy books, partly because of the escapism, I mean, have you seen the world lately? And yet, these books also speak to important themes in our world and offer the chance to develop and practice our empathy as we…

In Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg writes, “The DSM is more like a catalogue of current social ailments, than scientific, hardwired diseases. In Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler writes of what she calls psychiatric imperialism, whereby normal responses to trauma are methodically pathologized in science…

Owning who you are is power. If you can learn to own every part of you, the light and the dark, that is power. If you can learn to own who you are then it cannot be used against you (emotionally). The powers that be,…

Tessa Hale writes, “It changes you, doesn’t it? Grief?….It does change you. For the better and the worse all at the same time…..Even the worst things on the planet can still result in good. It’ doesn’t make the price worth it, but I think it…

I know that so many things can get in the way of taking needed steps into new spaces, or behaving in new ways. Sometimes we worry about all the negative things that can happen. This is totally understandable as many of us have lived through…