December’s here with all the focus on holidays, joy, togetherness, celebration, work parties, gift exchanges, family gatherings, obligations….and expectations. Lots of them. In January, do you tend to look back and wish you could have enjoyed it all more? ...
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...
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 I put “domestic violence” in quotation marks because that’s an outdated term that emphasizes the physical violence, and misleads us to think it’s only happening in domesticity —...
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....
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...
