Caring Matters
An integral part of feeling human is that sense of belongingness. We are innately programmed to want to belong to something/someone beyond ourselves. At the core of belongingness are acceptance, support, and protection. Prolonged lack [Read More]
One huge parenting fail is undermining a child’s reality. Most parents, either dismiss or invalidate their child’s perceptions. They fail to understand that their child is a thinking, feeling entity, completely separate from them. And [Read More]
Not all cases of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis could be due to ACEs or the repressing of emotions. Sometimes the underlying cause could be functional which may often be overlooked. Functional scoliosis, also known as non-structural [Read More]
Growing up in a dysfunctional home, one had to adapt and adjust to the chaos all around. Subconsciously, we adopted coping strategies or defense mechanisms to survive our abnormal situations. Often these habitual patterns of [Read More]
Many with scoliosis also have a deviated septum wherein the internal dividing wall between the right and left nostril – the nasal septum shifts away from the midline. This causes blockage/narrowing of the nasal airways [Read More]
According to, body language expert, Amy Cuddy, holding one’s body in a 2-minute expansive power pose can change our mental state. The reason is that ‘high-power’ poses stimulate the release of testosterone (the hormone linked [Read More]
To survive an abusive childhood one has to suppress the cognitive dissonance one regularly experiences. Depending on their moods our caregivers would swing from being a raging lunatic to a saccharine puppy, all in a [Read More]
Unlike normal folk, we who have scoliosis worry about different kinds of curves – how much our spine is curved, where it is curved, and what it is doing to our body. Not just the [Read More]
Healing from childhood trauma is a trip into the unknown. We don’t know what we may encounter or the demons we may have to face. Nonetheless, if we are to heal and find our authentic [Read More]
Currently, I am in a liminal space, an in-between state where my traumatized past self is nearly gone but my new personality is still in development. For years, I was frozen in time, a frightened, [Read More]