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Healing The Silent Survivors
Several years back I was sitting around a kitchen table chatting with two friends with whom I am very close. One of them was Paula (name...
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Redefining Trauma
Years ago I identified myself as the problem in my marriage. I felt that the only explanation for being so repulsed by intimacy was that...
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The Truth About Vulnerability
Vulnerability has been a buzz word ever since researcher Brene Brown’s TED talk went viral in 2011. According to Brown, allowing...
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The Empathy Test
Can we feel empathy in our bodies? What exactly does it feel like? How will we know when we feel it? Try this little test. Click on the...
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Meet My Friend, Shame
Not too long ago I received an email from a new friend. We had just spent five days together with several colleagues working on a book of...
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Chasing Well-Being
I recently attended the Women’s Conference in Boston, MA. For one full day, thirteen thousand women—mostly from the corporate...
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Moving beyond Trauma Informed
Back in 2009, the phrase trauma informed was something I was beginning to hear about. Since then, the classification of agencies,...