Aug 20, 2022 | Anxiety, Healing Trauma, Mental Health
Ever hear of the #MeOne Movement? No? Me either. I just made it up. (I’m not trying to devalue MeToo or BLM, so don’t panic.) I’ve just been observing that, although we see these societal movements and they are strong and good and needed… They are driven by...
Jul 23, 2022 | Ending Sexual Abuse, Healing Trauma, Mental Health
When I was three, my mom discovered I could barely see. She took me to get glasses, and I spent 50 years coping with challenged vision. I realized later in life with the molestation memory, that this blindness contributed to my not being able to see my...
Jun 22, 2022 | Handling Emotions, Healing Trauma, Mental Health
Lately I’ve been running negative thoughts through my head, like a cycle on steroids. It happens periodically, and I don’t think it is related to trauma; it’s just a normal human condition. I’m not generally an angry person, and I even wrote a guide to help...
May 30, 2022 | Ending Sexual Abuse, Healing Trauma, Parenting
It’s open season for child molesters. After the horrific mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas recently, some guy was posting about it on LinkedIn (LinkedIn, for god’s sake!) the next day. He shared a picture of a middle-aged guy standing at the doorway of a grade...
Apr 25, 2022 | Domestic Violence, Healing Trauma, Mental Health
Last night I watched some utter nonsense, courtesy of Dateline on NBC. The Friday, April 21, 2022 episode covered the Sherri Papini story, in which the producers painted Papini as a heinous criminal while completely glossing over the fact that she is also a...