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Therapy Didn’t Work for Me. Now What?

Most traditional therapy focuses on what's wrong with you, makes you relive painful experiences, and expects you to get "fixed" by talking about problems. If that didn't work, you're not broken. ...more

Trauma

August 20, 2025•2 min read

Why do I keep reacting this way?

when you practice positive experiences, install good memories, and strengthen feelings like peace, contentment, or protection, you give your brain more responses from which you can choose. ...more

Trauma

August 13, 2025•2 min read

Why Do I Feel Sad When I Start to Feel Better?

Listen, if you've ever started feeling maybe more hopeful, or just less on edge, somehow “better”—only to be hit with unexpected sadness, welcome to my club. ...more

Change

August 06, 2025•2 min read

More on Power...

Power and choice are related. The choices that I learn are mine to make vary based on how others around me exercise their power. ...more

Resilience

July 30, 2025•1 min read

Power. Again.

Beliefs drive thoughts, which drive feelings and actions. We teach and model what we have learned, and our experiences inform the questions. ...more

Resilience

July 23, 2025•1 min read

TR-EQ and Power

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) can be used as a weapon against others easily. People who have higher levels of EQ can bully those who have less. ...more

Resilience

July 16, 2025•1 min read

More From Power Over to Power With: The Shift That Heals

“Power over” creates a requirement to always have a winner and a loser. This fosters meanness and incivility--after all no one likes to be a loser, and if you are, then the struggles for appropriate p... ...more

Resilience

July 09, 2025•2 min read

From Power Over to Power With: The Shift That Heals

I’ve carried the surname Power all my life, and it has taught me to think differently about what that word truly means. ...more

Resilience

July 02, 2025•2 min read

A Framework for Political Resilience

TR-EQ (Trauma-Responsive Emotional Intelligence) is a model that helps people develop the skills they missed when they were overwhelmed—often as children. ...more

Trauma

June 25, 2025•1 min read

TR-EQ and the Politics of Emotional Maturity

If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s this: the emotional maturity of a society directly shapes its political landscape. ...more

Trauma

June 18, 2025•1 min read

Brains in Alarm Can’t Learn—Why TR-EQ Is the Antidote to a Reactive World

When we are overwhelmed—whether by headlines, hostility, or our own histories—our nervous systems shift into survival mode. This “alarm state” shuts down the part of the brain responsible for learning... ...more

Trauma

June 11, 2025•2 min read

Relationship as Medicine?

Here’s the truth we need to remember: People care for and heal people. Not policies, prescriptions, acronyms, perfectly written care plans. ...more

Trauma

June 04, 2025•2 min read

The Missing Link in Trauma-Informed Care

Let’s be honest: most long-term care facilities are trying to do the right thing. They want to protect their residents. They want to comply with regulations. They want to be “trauma-informed.” ...more

Trauma

May 28, 2025•2 min read

The Courage to Change: F-699’s gift

New Blog PostIt takes courage to shift from compliance to culture change. But the reward is extraordinary: a long-term care setting where healing is mutual, where dignity is restored in both giving an... ...more

Trauma

May 21, 2025•1 min read

Don’t ask staff to pour from empty cups…

If we ask frontline staff to be trauma-informed without giving them the tools to manage their own histories, we are setting them up to fail—and asking them to pour from empty cups. ...more

Trauma

May 14, 2025•1 min read