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I love this quote from bell hooks, who was a Black American author and social activist who’s best known for her writings on feminism, race, and class. I believe the heart of justice in trauma work is also truth telling. So much of what is…

This past weekend I attended the Social Justice Summit put on by the Trauma Research Foundation. It was a powerful weekend and I found myself very moved by the practitioners who spoke and the container that was created for this experience. This quote comes from…

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…