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F-699 Do what? Tags, Trauma Informed Care, and HealthCare Facilities

This is the first in a series of several blogs about places where people receive some level of services, specifically, Assisted Living Facilities, Long Term Care Facilities, and Skilled Nursing Facili... ...more

Trauma

January 15, 2025•2 min read

Plop Plop Fizz Fizz? Slop Slop Whizz Whizz?

Oh, what a relief it is (with apologies to Alka Seltzer). Or not. One big holiday in the US (last week) down. Who knows how many are left to go for everyone who may celebrate others along the way. ...more

Trauma

December 04, 2024•1 min read

How’s Your Practice for Turkey Talk?

Tomorrow is your big day. I’m only hoping you’ve been practicing. I sure have! I used to avoid holidays because as much dysfunction as I’d been exposed to growing up, I didn’t need to see anyone else’... ...more

Trauma

November 27, 2024•1 min read

It’s still about… the Turkeys

Look, you know as well as I do that some of the turkeys don’t have feathers (though at least one of these has a pretty good wattle). How are you going to manage the high risk of exposure to those tur... ...more

Trauma

November 20, 2024•2 min read

Turkey Time is Coming!

Whether you are vegan, vegetarian or any other “-arian,” the holidays are on us. Did you know that Wikipedia lists over 20 between November 1 and December 31? ...more

Trauma

November 14, 2024•1 min read

An airplane story about fear…

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

All Hallows Eve: My friend Richard

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

Meaning-Making: The Key

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

Fall--and the necessity of loss

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

Opening Arms to Light

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

Hello? Hello? Are you there?

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

Managing the impact of trauma in workplace

There are some very simple norms around managing trauma when it shows up in the workplace. ...more

Trauma

September 25, 2024•2 min read

Gathering in

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

We turn to the West

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

Summer of Two Frogs

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