Learning about the three stages of rebuilding trust can help you to progress in your recovery. ___ Trust is like blood. You need it to live, but when it is spilled all over it makes for a real mess. Love is unconditional, no strings attached. At least that’s how it should be. But trust, trust … More How to Rebuild Your Trust After Trauma
5 Ways that Power Can Help You to Heal ___ Power. Right now, you have the power to heal and the power to grow. In fact, you have more power than you know and much more than you use in your everyday life. In a recent article on How to Heal from Abuse, I quoted … More How to Find The Power to Heal From Trauma and Abuse
Click photo for more about the art of healing. I write articles about wellness, leadership, parenting and personal growth. My hope is to deliver the best content I can to inspire, to inform and to entertain. Sign up for my blog if you want to receive the latest and best of my writing. If you like … More How to Experience the Art of Healing
Life will give you wrinkles, they are nothing but signs of your resiliency ___ Last year, we bought a new set of dishes. New, shiny white dishes that gleamed. But soon, the scratches came. At first, a few lines appeared like veins over your heart. Then they seemed to pour out. Within a year, our plates … More How to Open Up to Life After a Trauma
“When times are good and the ship of state only needs to sail straight, mentally healthy people function well as political leaders. But in times of crisis and tumult, those who are mentally abnormal, even ill, become the greatest leaders. We might call this the Inverse Law of Sanity.” Nassir Ghaemi, PhD I am working … More The Leader’s Mental Health: The Degree from the University of Suffering They Will Never Tell You About
Life has a way of colliding with you. Whether you like it or not you may be bumped, bashed and bowled over by life and you may end up with bruised and broken parts. I sometimes wish that I could bubble wrap my kids. I would like to protect them from the bashing that may … More Bubble Parenting
Getting High on Recovery 