by Lisa Wolcott | Apr 2, 2024 | Blog
It’s Child Abuse Awareness Month. No one likes to think about child abuse. So we’re largely silent about it. Which creates a perfect condition for child abuse to thrive and proliferate. Because abuse of all kinds thrives in silence and darkness. And the cost...
by Lisa Wolcott | Oct 9, 2021 | Blog
October is “Domestic Violence” Awareness Month. I put “domestic violence” in quotation marks because that’s an outdated term that emphasizes the physical violence, and misleads us to think it’s only happening in domesticity —...
by Lisa Wolcott | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog
This post was originally published on March 2, 2014. Thousands of comments later, I’m still getting emails and calls about it weekly. Given the interest in sociopathy in the news today, I decided to re-publish it here. Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahlmer. Danny Rolling....
by Lisa Wolcott | Jun 6, 2020 | Blog
Some thoughts on the last few weeks. I’ll make the writing short and the recommendations long for further learning, because my thoughts aren’t needed here; we need to listen to the voices of people of color. Trauma needs a witness, and I witness with my feelings...
by Lisa Wolcott | May 11, 2020 | Blog
“Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today to get through this thing called Life.” — Prince I’m shifting gears from the 3-a-week blogs on poems/pods/books. I’ll keep sharing what I’m leaning into going forward….just not in this same 3x/week form. ...
