
Developing Your Own Narrative Promotes Lifelong Healing
I am often asked about the title of my memoir, Parallel Universes, and how I came up with it. There are many different reasons it
I am often asked about the title of my memoir, Parallel Universes, and how I came up with it. There are many different reasons it
Sometimes I imagine past trauma as one of those Choose-Your-Own Adventure situations, where turning to page XYZ essentially puts me back in a sad loop
I had the honor of presenting The Complexities of Addiction: Implications for Foster, Relative, and Adoptive Families at the Families Like Mine conference, a statewide
I was honored to speak to the clinicians at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation today, especially as a graduate of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate
I was honored to have kicked off the 2023 Haymarket Center Spring Workshops with the presentation: Family of Origin Separation Trauma and Addiction – Care
One of the most challenging aspects of growing up with developmental trauma is having to unlearn certain beliefs—beliefs that might’ve served us at one point,
My beautiful, sweet mother died last week at the age of 90 years old. She passed while I was on a plane on my way
I was relinquished at birth, then adopted into a new family at the age of one-week old. I entered this world without the safety net
I’ve had a lot of breakthroughs in my life, but it wasn’t until I started to share my story that I understood that my experiences
It’s hard to not make it sound as if it’s not my ego that needs stroking, but when I think about my work as an
For many of us the real new year starts in September. This is the time when kids and young adults go back to school, when
Recently, I experienced a profound personal loss. The details are not important as they are private, but this was the loss of the greatest caliber
“The butterfly effect is the idea that small, seemingly trivial events may ultimately result in something with much larger consequences – in other words, they
Have you too been feeling this “sweet” pressure to feel good, the way I have lately? I’m talking about the pressure to triumph over negativity
“I’ve got the sweetest hangover/ I don’t wanna get over” ~ Diana Ross Recently, I was a part of a beautiful event that made
There’s no doubt that we’re going to be here for a little longer—here meaning the unstable and unpredictable world we find ourselves in. Nothing seems
In the following series I will talk about composite case studies based on clients who came to my practice looking for help with their emotional-
In the following series I will talk about composite case studies based on clients who came to my practice looking for help with their emotional-
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