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Growth and healing can be difficult and we all fall down in the process. But you have not learned to walk until you have also learned how to get back up when you fall. Just because you went through a rough patch, or a relapse,…

An understanding of dissociation in general, and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in particular is sorely lacking in the mental health field. Therefore, many therapists may think it is best to treat clients with DID, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, as if they don’t have…

This idea has never been more important or more relevant than in 2020. I know that we are all suffering from fatigue with the pandemic and many of us with the election and all the issues that come with it. I still have clients who…

This is a quote from Debra Wesselmann’s book The Whole Parent: How to become a terrific parent even if you didn’t have one and in it, she talks a lot about the intergenerational transmission of trauma. A common coping strategy used by people who have…

This is a quote from a client, shared with their permission. I share it because it so perfectly encapsulates the antithesis to this idea that there is some sort of expiation date on growth or change. We are each being born every minute of every…

If we want to have a just, ethical, or loving society we cannot turn away from others’ suffering. There is too much hurt, pain, suffering and trauma. And it is a lie that these are problems that are too big for us to change. Those…