You board an airplane. It’s something you’ve done every week for a long time. This time it’s different. A “nervous nellie” is seated next to you. As the doors close, and you’re both buckled in, your r... ...more
Trauma
November 06, 2024•2 min read
He was my best friend-brother in Nashville, a constant in my life when it was filled with challenges, travel, and disruption galore. We could always talk about gardening or what was going on in the 'h... ...more
Trauma
October 30, 2024•1 min read
If meaning-making is the most powerful tool we can develop and use in the face of loss, how do we “do” it? ...more
Trauma
October 23, 2024•1 min read
Every fall, we see the leaves… fall. Plants stop producing and die. We begin to add more clothes as the weather becomes cooler. We lose access to the baking summer sun. Loss is a universal experience,... ...more
Trauma
October 16, 2024•2 min read
She could be anybody--oh, that we all had such strong experiences of daybreaking in our lives! I was just talking to a colleague of mine who asked me what my “aha” moment about healing was, my “daybre... ...more
Trauma
October 09, 2024•2 min read
We've been reaching out to organizations whose people are stressed, burned out, and crispy critters from the mass trauma of the pandemic and whatever personal losses or trauma they have experienced be... ...more
Trauma
October 02, 2024•2 min read
There are some very simple norms around managing trauma when it shows up in the workplace. ...more
Trauma
September 25, 2024•2 min read
Now is the gathering in time. Have a look at what you bring in from your efforts. Look for the good, choose what you might do different... ...more
Trauma
September 18, 2024•1 min read
West is a direction of completion and maturity, of dreaming, the source of water, the place and time of transformation ...more
Trauma
September 11, 2024•1 min read
If you’ve followed me any time at all, you know I love my garden. The last two years have been especially challenging: I was in SC half the time and couldn’t tend. Had no soil to tend there. My soul a... ...more
Trauma
September 04, 2024•1 min read
Forget “hangry”--that cute level of hunger that makes people irritable. It’s been a staple in commercials for some time. A candy bar is the solution. This weather? It’s bringing the “hongry” out. ...more
Trauma
August 28, 2024•1 min read
It was Samwise Gamgee who said this, in The Two Towers, to Frodo: It’s like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. ...more
Trauma
August 21, 2024•1 min read
Oppression and fear sit in opposition to hope. Sometimes, they, too, feel as if they are everywhere all the time. What if they are? ...more
Trauma
August 14, 2024•1 min read
While Emily Dickinson puts hope into the symbolic form of a bird within us, we live with it as “optimism” and “a belief that things will change.” ...more
Trauma
August 07, 2024•1 min read
Hope is still the topic du jour and Emily Dickinson is still the guide--her last stanza (see last week for the first) sits with me on a regular basis. ...more
Trauma
July 31, 2024•1 min read
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