Caring Matters
The pain of the past, unfortunately, keeps you stuck in a time zone of terror and fear. It splits your still-developing self into fragments. You adopt a coping mechanism that helps you survive. You deny [Read More]
Most of us have not been lucky to have had good mirroring when we were growing up. We were constantly admonished, reprimanded, undermined, and forced to submit to the dictates of the adults in our [Read More]
I cringe every time I see a little child singing like a nightingale or twirling like a graceful gazelle on the numerous talent shows on television. The audience is rapturous and the media goes gaga over [Read More]
I am glad I grew up with the tradition of Santa Claus. My brother and I would tell my mother what we wanted for X-mas and she’d say she would call Santa from her [Read More]
For those of us recovering from child abuse, our sense of self is distorted. We literally don’t exist but to cater to the twisted expectations of our toxic families. Then one day we wake up [Read More]
I am appalled at Sarah Ferguson’s claim that her newly married daughter Princess Eugenie would have been “put in an asylum and locked up” had the royal suffered from her rare spinal condition scoliosis in [Read More]
We bring our mindset into every area of experience. Your mindset is characterized by your way of thinking about what happens to you and what you can do about it. For instance, if you feel [Read More]
I’ve loved watching Anthony Bourdain’s Food Travel shows. Those dark bleak days when alone parenting my child, struggling with depression, and hopelessness. I’d switch on the TV to watch Anthony’s No Reservations. My son and [Read More]
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]
Do certain personality traits, a history of adverse childhood experiences ACEs, or a particular way of coping with stress make a person more likely to get scoliosis? Medical research has been woefully inadequate on this [Read More]