Shattering the Silence

Back in the early 1980s, I saw a film called Ordinary People , for which Timothy Hutton won an Academy Award as the younger son, Conrad. Nea...

My friends used to insist that I was too tough on myself. I smiled and said something innocuous like, "Maybe you're right." I ...

When I was living in Africa, early one morning I watched an African with his ox pulling a plow through his field. The lines were straight, a...

A frequent contributor, Mark, sent me an email in which he spoke about his intense loneliness, which I've paraphrased. "I go to bed...

A survivor named Phil gave me permission to post his email to me. In it he refers to EMDR. I heard about this only two years ago when I work...

In our family, sexual abuse wasn’t the only thing we didn't talk about, but it was the most important. Although no one ever instructed m...

I first read those words in a book by Claudia Black and I scoffed. "More psychobabble," I mumbled. But the words stayed with me an...