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Shame is something we feel when we violate social norms. It’s a feeling of humiliation when we have done something we believe is immoral, dishonorable or improper. It leads us to view ourselves as shameful, or bad. In moments when we are feeling shame we…

As Pink sings in her song All I Know So Far, “Haven’t always been this way. I wasn’t born a renegade. I felt alone, still feel afraid, I stumble through it anyway. I wish someone would have told me that this life is ours to…

In Rutger Bergman’s Humankind: A Hopeful History he writes, “Is it any wonder then that loneliness can quite literally make us sick? That a lack of human contact is comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day? That having a pet lowers our risk of depression?…

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…