Caring Matters
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 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 it [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]
The first step to recovery from childhood trauma is acknowledging the hurts and feeling the pain. Being emotionally, physically, or sexually abused is unbearable for a child. When no resolution is in sight, the only [Read More]
I’m so lonely (so lonely) I’m Mr. Lonely (Mr. Lonely) I have nobody (I have nobody) To call my own (to call my own) Akon’s song so aptly expresses the anguish of the feeling. The [Read More]
Groping, touching, brushing, lewd comments, unwanted glances, and attention are not something women have to only deal with on the street, at school/college, at their jobs, or in the park. Sadly, for many of us, [Read More]
Most parents are guilty of having lost their temper with their child/children. Sometimes even a minor misdemeanor is enough to trigger a parent into violence. Why does it happen? Unfortunately for most of us, our [Read More]