If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
Anger is the immune system of the soul.
Deep connection is the antidote to madness.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Where would we be without our painful childhoods?
EMDR is a bizarre and wondrous treatment and anybody who first hears about it, myself included, thinks this is pretty hokey and strange. It's something invented by Francine Shapiro who found that, if...
a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.
When you hold onto a script that doesn't serve you, you leave no space to write a new one that does.
We live with the scars we choose.
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the fro...
A freeze response (dissociation, collapse, numbing, paralysis, deadness) during the incident that threatened your life or limb. Sometimes it's difficult for people to understand that this is really su...
Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens an...
Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.
A few years ago I heard Jerome Kagan, a distinguished emeritus professor of child psychology at Harvard, say to the Dalai Lama that for every act of cruelty in this world there are hundreds of small a...
Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.
the only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.
Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment...
When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.
En los momentos más terribles de la vida solemos caer en una suerte de irresponsabilidad protectora y en vez de pensar en lo que nos ocurre dirigimos la atención a trivialidades.