Shattering the Silence

The speaker referred to “strategies for protection from painful memories.” He talked about unconsciously rewriting childhood history into pe...

I wonder how many of us had a rich fantasy life. I never thought much about that until recently. I had a vivid imagination and put myself in...

Ron* called it the blame game. “In our family, we had to find out who was wrong and then we moved on,” Ron said and pointed out that the bla...

“It was all a lie,” Max, a 23-year-old, said to me. He told me of the leader in his church who befriended him when he was 10 years old. “I w...

“If he hadn’t . . .” I wonder how many times I’ve heard that statement from survivors. And it’s a true statement. None of us survivors of ...

“I have an inner circle—myself.” Of all the things the man said, that’s all I remember. It took place in a meeting where I was the guest spe...

About a decade ago my friend Gerald Coker died of cancer. What I remember most about our relationship was his attitude toward women. I didn’...