Trauma-Post-Traumatic Growth
Responding to the Trauma of War
The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel began the day after the 2023 Mill Valley Film Festival began here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was immersed in watching […]
What Happened to You? – rather than What’s Wrong with You?
A client referred me to What Happened to You? – Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry, last Wednesday; I got the book from […]
Opposites of Fear in Extreme Distress – Being Brave, Being Safe
I was recently interviewed by Hesna Al Ghaoui, former war correspondent for Hungarian television, now a Fulbright scholar at the University of California-Berkeley, studying fear. Hesna found me through my […]
The Flexibility Sequence that Leads to Resilience
In this latest book, The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think about PTSD, George Bonanno, chair of the Department of Counseling and […]
Pushback on My Definition of Resilience
Abi Blakeslee is an experienced trauma therapist, currently training therapists in Hungary (online through traumahealing.org) in tools to help Ukranian refugees cope with the trauma of the invasion and bombardment […]
Recovering from Pandemic Burnout and Fatigue…In Ways That Are Honest and Effective
Many years ago, when I finished writing the manuscript for Bouncing Back and pushed “send” on the computer, I checked in to see what I was feeling after a full […]
For Clinicians: Working with Traumatized Nervous Systems
So many folks are getting wrung out by the challenges of coping with a pandemic that doesn’t seem ready to quit. Whether people were ever traumatized before in their lives, […]
The New Normal? Not So Fast…and Not So Easy
Yesterday’s post, Gone Fishin’, mentioned that I hit a wall last week and would show up in your inbox today re-grouped, re-Sourced, recovered, with an attempt at explaining, at least […]
A Truth about Trauma
Trauma is a fact of life. It doesn’t have to be a life sentence. – Peter Levine, founder of Somatic Experiencing trauma therapy I quote the quote above in most […]
In Times of Cataclysmic Change, Resilience Is Bouncing Back; Post-Traumatic Growth Is Bouncing Forward
Whatever the final, final results of the U.S. national elections this week, practices to strengthen resilience to meet the massive changes on the horizon are going to be helpful. My […]