An airplane story about fear…

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, 20242 min read

All Hallows Eve: My friend Richard

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, 20241 min read

Meaning-Making: The Key

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, 20241 min read

Fall--and the necessity of loss

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, 20242 min read

Opening Arms to Light

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, 20242 min read

Hello? Hello?  Are you there?

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, 20242 min read

Managing the impact of trauma in workplace

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, 20242 min read

Gathering in

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, 20241 min read

We turn to the West

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, 20241 min read

Summer of Two Frogs

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, 20241 min read

Hongry: hot and angry

Hongry: hot and angry

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, 20241 min read

Hope and the Hobbits?

Hope and the Hobbits?

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, 20241 min read

Hope as a liberative journey

Hope as a liberative journey

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, 20241 min read

Hope is no invisible bird.

Hope is no invisible bird.

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, 20241 min read

More on hope--

More on hope--

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, 20241 min read

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