The Good Liar – Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold

The Good Liar – Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold Revenge is a natural feeling when one has been wronged

Being hurt, humiliated and abused in childhood naturally elicits the desire to seek revenge. I am no different. However, as I heal those violent revenge fantasies have tapered off to ‘they will get divine comeuppance [Read More]

Healing My Life from Incest to Joy: A Survivor’s Guidebook Donna shares her pain and struggle dealing with incest while offering hope and healing to other survivors

Healing My Life from Incest to Joy is a memoir of the choices I made and experiences that helped me heal from childhood trauma. The book offers hope to survivors of child sexual abuse Breaking [Read More]

Get Shorty – Post-Trauma Identity, Becoming A Bad-Ass

Get Shorty – Post-Trauma Identity, Becoming A Bad-Ass How to develop a robust post-trauma identity to avoid further abuse.

Childhood trauma robs us of the ability to flow into our adult personality. Those who have experienced trauma have an unstable, fragile, shaky, and undefined identity. Survival for many of us meant numbing/dissociating or putting [Read More]

Breaking Bad – Becoming The Black Sheep of The Family

Breaking Bad – Becoming The Black Sheep of The Family Don't wait till it too late, overcome your fear, don't worry about being the black sheep

I am rewatching  Breaking Bad, the riveting TV show that broke all stereotypes. The series tells the story of Walter White, a reticent high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with stage-3 lung cancer. Suddenly, [Read More]

A Parent's Gift Of Positivity - Life Is Beautiful

A Parent’s Gift Of Positivity – Life Is Beautiful No matter how bad things are, try to make life into adventure for your kids

Parents shape a child’s reality. Everything they say and do for the first seven years of their children’s lives is recorded and becomes their beliefs and behaviors. Moreover, it is not the environment that shapes [Read More]

Movie Therapy - How Mirror Neurons Help Heal Trauma

Movie Therapy – How Mirror Neurons Help Heal Trauma Movies can be used as a tool to release our frozen emotions and heal

Movies can help us explore our psyches and heal our past traumas, Watching an emotional film triggers our mirror neurons and recreates within us the emotions felt by the characters we watch. Most of us [Read More]

Winnie-the-Pooh – Into A Child’s Magical World Disney's film very beautifully shows how we can heal by regaining the magic of our childhood

After a long time, I really enjoyed watching a movie. Christopher Robin,  the live-action Disney movie about Winnie-the-Pooh, transported my son and me to the magical world of childhood fantasy.  Thankfully, the movie sticks to simplistic storytelling [Read More]

Surviving The Road Less Traveled With Scott Peck

Surviving The Road Less Traveled With Scott Peck One of the best self-help books that answers nearly all life's dilemas

Life is difficult, is the first line of the best-seller The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck. On reading that line Enlightenment! My soul was filled with clarity, understanding, and acceptance. The premise of [Read More]

We Are Passengers, Enjoy The Journey