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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.
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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
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
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