
Why You Keep PLAYING SMALL
Your childhood trauma tried to destroy you when you were little and you survived. Right now is the time when you get to decide whether
Your childhood trauma tried to destroy you when you were little and you survived. Right now is the time when you get to decide whether
There is something unfair that happens when you’ve survived traumatic times. Even when the abuse wasn’t in any way your fault, people stop trusting you.
Of all the red flags I’ve learned to detect, there’s one that really makes my “uh-oh” radar go off, and that’s when a grown man
One hard thing about my work is — I get hate mail sometimes. Maybe you do too — or you just get exposed to other
If you grew up with abuse and neglect in your childhood, chances are good that you’ve suffered more than your share of broken relationships. Sometimes
Happy Valentines Day to all you good people out there! I talk a lot about breaking isolation and forming relationships, but a topic many of
For many of us who grew up with abuse or neglect during childhood, there’s this steep learning curve around PERCEPTION — and by that I
For me, one of the biggest burdens of my past was in my relationship to anger. When I was a kid, the adults in my
When we’re talking about abuse and neglect in childhood, there’s no way to avoid placing blame on the parents who perpetrated the abuse or
Abuse and neglect in childhood can leave a lifelong residue of guilt for things that were never our fault. This same fuzzy thinking can ALSO