Caring Matters
Evil is real, we cannot ignore its malevolent presence. The everyday news is full of accounts of murders and gruesome killings. Our general understanding of evil is that it is something done by criminals and [Read More]
Recently, Oprah Winfrey met up with Dr. Bruce Perry, a leading authority on childhood trauma. On the CBS “60 Minutes” interview, the well-known psychiatrist and neuroscientist reiterated the fact that ACEs increase a child’s chances [Read More]
On the joyous occasion of her engagement, Princess Eugenie credits her elder sister, Princess Beatrice for her giving her the courage to live fearlessly. She recalled her painful scoliosis diagnosis: “It could have impacted my [Read More]
The core of our self-development is how our parents and caregivers responded to our needs and emotions. Havard University’s Center on The Developing Child calls this ping-pong of human interaction the serve and return of [Read More]
Feelings of shame can be excruciatingly painful. The voices and sometimes unvoiced reactions of disgust or hate become encoded in our unconscious. Usually, the toxic emotion of shame is the legacy given to us by [Read More]
Healing our personal wounds takes time, patience and courage. When I was given the diagnosis of scoliosis at age 17 that I would be twisted and deformed. I felt my life had ended. My only [Read More]
I was 17 years old when I got the official diagnosis that I had scoliosis. Official because my father had noticed something was amiss with my back 2 years earlier, but thought I was doing [Read More]
Dr Vincent Felliti and Dr Robert Anda in their pioneering Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study, demonstrated the indisputable evidence how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) negatively affect a child right up to his adult life. They [Read More]
.. Healing from trauma means growing into a new person. The most significant change one feels when one is on the road to recovery is the feeling of being alive in the present. The ability [Read More]
I’ve spent most of my life in a numbed state. Too grief-stricken to feel anything. Mourning for losses that have no names. The deep sadness of losing my mother was literally like a black cloud [Read More]