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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…

“My late grandmother once reminded me, I inherited her fire. And I can use the fire I was born with to destroy everything around me or I can use it to light up my own life and someone else’s. I choose to light up my…

In his book, The Will of the Many, James Islington writes “Chain your anger in the dark, my mother used to tell me, and it will only thrive.” This is true of all emotions that we try to deny, suppress or contain. By our very…