Trauma-informed advice for depression recovery and generating sustainable happiness in your life.
How do they do that? Having worked with so many people who have undergone unspeakable trauma, I’ve heard stories of amazing survival skills. It is surprising what we can endure and survive. I think many of us agree that we can’t imagine what it was like to be kept as prisoners in a house for […]
Enjoy this recipe of dandelion vinegar! Happy Mother’s Day! And I am talking to anyone, of any gender, who have raised children or not. Everyone is included because we all have some mothering skills at our disposal that we use to care for our loved ones and to care for ourselves. Or how else would
Curious about why we cry? I wish I had a dime for anytime someone apologized for crying in front of me in counseling. As if they were offending me. (More likely, offending themselves.) Why do we shame ourselves for something that can be such a biological relief to our parasympathetic nervous system? Why do we–all
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Many people use writing to heal from the pain and problems of their past. Painful feelings expressed into words uncap a pressure and undermine a power that can bring us down. My clients and friends often write me to release this pressure. The proverbial “getting things off your chest” can be just the ticket to get through
“Love Heals, Kindness Heals” was first published on my Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog. It has received over 36,000 hits. I am glad romance still holds as much value to all of you that it does to me. Share if this makes you feel good! “His Kindness Healed Me” As often happens, I was brought to tears last
Every two minutes someone in the US is sexually assaulted. Every two minutes. That’s twenty people in the time it took me to write this post. Nineteen of them are women. (With childhood sexual abuse, victim’s gender ratio is 3 girls to 1 boy.) Rape and sexual abuse are hard things to talk about because
“Call Jodi. She’ll know what to do.” That’s what everyone said. There’s an interesting phenomenon that has followed me around for more than half my life. I turned it into a fulfilling career as a counselor. Let me give you an example… In college, my housemate once knocked on my bedroom door. She entered my
Why do people need a personal invitation to heal? “Moved by the force of love fragments of the world, we seek out one another so that a world may be.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Most of us have experiences of other people’s words of anger, abuse or dismissiveness. When this happens, it is hard not