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I’ve started reading Gabor Mate’s The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture and there is a lot of good info in there. Maté’ writes, “I will make the case that much of what passes for normal in our society, is…

Piglet. “I definitely have those days.” I think we can all agree with Pooh and Piglet, we all have some days when we feel Not Very Okay At All, and don’t even know why we feel that way. For some folks, this may even make…

In Rutger Bregman’s Humans a Hopeful History he writes, “Treat people like dirt and they’ll be dirt. Treat them like human beings and they’ll act like human beings.” He writes about this in the context of how prisons are different in Norway and their approach…

In the excellent documentary, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, Aimee Mullins says, “If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities we all have. It is our humanity and all the potential…

As Gabore Maté writes in his book on ADHD, Scattered Minds, “A child taught to disregard or mistrust her innermost feelings and thoughts assumes automatically that there is something shameful about them, and therefore about her very self.” Children learn to distrust or disregard their…

In Rebecca Solint’s book, Hope In the Dark, she writes, “It’s important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine….Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naivete.” I like…