The Art of Trauma-Informed Care

7 Trauma-Informed Phrases I Use Every Day as a Trauma-Informed Consultant

Apr 4, 20235 min read

11 Trauma-Informed Boundary Phrases to Use at Work

Jan 4, 20235 min read

10 Things You Didn’t Know Were Trauma Responses

Oct 11, 20226 min read

Oct 1, 20174 min read

Burning Coals of Emotional Abuse: Minimizing, Invalidating & Gas Lighting

Since the release of Garbage Bag Suitcase, I have had some interesting human encounters. I have traveled around the country and even into...

Sep 3, 20173 min read

LIAR, LIAR - Looking Beyond the Lie

Lying is a topic that I have been meaning to cover on this blog for sometime, but frankly every time I sit down to write it, I get...

Aug 2, 20171 min read

Incarceration, Homelessness & Addiction: The Foster Care Problem

I was recently asked to be on the Incarcerate US podcast that is hosted by Dante Nottingham, an inmate who has been locked up since the...

Mar 30, 20174 min read

Self Help: More Than Just A Book

I have written before about how I was a self-help book addict. I read every book I could find, re-reading several of them and even going...

Feb 1, 20173 min read

A Nation Triggered: Using Powerful Questions to Coach Ourselves in Bi-Partisanship

A NATION TRIGGERED Using Powerful Questions to Coach Ourselves to Bi-Partisanship It’s official: in the United States we have a new...

Dec 8, 20162 min read

Who Gets The Life Raft: The Difficult Relationships of Foster Youth

Writing for this blog is sometimes problematic for me. I try to be as transparent as possible and talk about the things that are truly...

Sep 26, 20163 min read

Can Living Alone Heal Trauma? A Year to Find out

I have never really been good at relationships. Intimacy scares me, and trust is something that is earned. When I travel now, speaking...