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I’m reading Perspectives of Dissociative Identity Response: Ethical, Historical, and Cultural Issues, and came across this quote by Dr. Alexis Arbuthnott: “People with secure attachment styles feel connected with others and know how to ask for and receive support from appropriate people and in healthy…

As I like to remind my clients who are disappointed that they are late bloomers and lagging behind others, at least you are blooming, not everyone does. I know that healing is hard and there is a natural grief, sadness and anger that can arise around…

Mark Nickerson, a fellow EMDR Therapist states, “We need a culture that supports rather than demeans our need for others. When we overemphasize the goal of autonomy and “standing on your own,” we are siding against our own neurobiology.” Needing others is not wrong, it…

This is true on an individual level, as well as a familial and societal level too. It takes a great deal of care about other human beings to struggle to find a better world. For if we do not care, then who will? If we…

Quote from Gabor Maté’s Scattered Minds, “Self-regulation is not the absence of anxiety, at least not in the very beginning, but a person’s ability to tolerate her own anxiety.” I think a common misconception about health and healing is that it is the absence of…

I have struggled with my reflections on what it means to be an American today as we celebrate our nationally recognized independence day. But I cannot celebrate when I know not everyone truly gained their freedom that day. That Black people were still enslaved, that…