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Posted: July 3, 2020
On this eve of the fourth of July, I think this quote is just as resonant and important today as when the poet Langston Hughes wrote it in 1995. We are taught in school how America was founded on the notion that every man should…
Posted: July 1, 2020
I often times hear from my trauma clients how they feel weak and that never ceases to amaze me because so often these are some of the strongest people I have ever met. That strength is what allowed them to survive what they went through.…
Posted: June 27, 2020
There is much truth in this statement, and yet we invest so much time and energy into our efforts to avoid that which we are afraid of. Especially in trauma work there is a lot of avoidance – of feelings and memories, people and places.…
Posted: June 26, 2020
Each of us every day make mistakes and it is our responsibility to get back up and learn from them. When we are learning we are bound to make mistakes. Be gentle with yourself, but learn from it, grow from it. In our work to…
Posted: June 22, 2020
The full quote is emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds. Each of us is responsible for working to free our minds from the negative messages we have internalized from our society and our families. Weather you are black or…