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
Loneliness: Epidemic and Enemy of F-699 (and everything else!)
While being alone is something almost all of us seek at some time in our lives, there’s a difference between “alone” and “lonely.” I think there might be a difference between “lonely” and “lonesome,” ... ...more
Trauma
April 30, 2025•2 min read
Word scrubbing: Unintended consequences
About a month ago, a list of words began to circulate. Words, that if found in a grant application, resulted in revocation or rejection. One of those words is “trauma.” ...more
Trauma
April 16, 2025•2 min read
I’m still here! Talking about Care Facilities and that F-699 thing
Another challenge that relates to last week’s blog is polypharmacy, when someone is on lots of different medications prescribed by several different providers who may not talk with each other. ...more
Trauma
April 02, 2025•2 min read
The numbers that boil behind F-699
Enticing title, no? Here’s the skinny. According to data from Statista, approximately 39.89 million prescriptions for sertraline were written in the United States in 2022. Let’s call that 40 million ... ...more
Trauma
March 26, 2025•2 min read
Why is TIC Hard to Implement in facilities? F-699
Last month about this time I delivered a luncheon speech to about 500 members of the NC Health Care Facilities Association, talking about F-699 and the challenges. ...more
Trauma
March 19, 2025•2 min read
The Ides of March: March 15
Somewhere in the middle of March, about the 15th, is “the ides of March.” I’ve always heard it as way to explain away the crappy things that happen around that time. ...more
Trauma
March 12, 2025•1 min read
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