The Protective Beliefs We Carry After Trauma
Learning to Trust What Feels Safe After everything we’ve carried,safety doesn’t always feel the way people expect it to. It’s not always calm.It’s not…
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Learning to Trust What Feels Safe After everything we’ve carried,safety doesn’t always feel the way people expect it to. It’s not always calm.It’s not…
Read more →From Childhood Play to Quiet Companions When we were children, shadows were something playful. We chased them on pavements, stretched them long in the…
Read more →The quiet signals we Miss When People Are Struggling In most workplaces, people rarely say, “I’m not okay.” Not because they’re dishonest.Not because they…
Read more →The Extraordinary Lives Behind Ordinary Jobs. I’ve chaired meetings while quietly trying to steady my breathing. From the outside it looked like leadership. Calm,…
Read more →What It Looks Like Day to Day Previously, we explored what trauma-informed practice is — and what it is not.This week, I want to…
Read more →When trauma teaches us to survive by pleasing For a long time, I thought I was just kind.Accommodating.Reliable.The one who would stay late.The one…
Read more →There’s a quiet loneliness that lives inside leadership especially in trauma-focused work. Not the loneliness of being alone, but the loneliness of carrying responsibility,…
Read more →Grieving the People We’ve Lost — Including the Ones We Used to BePeople often think grief happens in one moment — when someone dies.…
Read more →If there’s one thing I’ve learned — both in my work and in my home — it’s that young people are almost never “just…
Read more →We often think of trauma as something that happens to someone else — a dramatic event, a crisis, a clear rupture in life. But…
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