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How Childhood Suffering lives on…
“Some things that happen to you never stop happening to you…” Author Unknown Each of us who has endured prolonged childhood suffering leaves behind our own unique trail of tears. Some of us still have...
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Tools for Promoting Post Traumatic Growth: #1 (Recasting)
In “How We Choose to be Happy,” Rick Foster and Greg Hicks describe a process they call ‘recasting’. In order to learn how to recast: 1. Identify a problem that you’re currently struggling with 2....
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Childhood Trauma: When Childhood Stories Haunt Us
In “M is for Magic” Neil Gaiman wrote, “Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely...
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Why I Incorporate Positive Psychology into My Therapy
“There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.” Author Unknown Being a proponent for strength based therapies for the past twenty years, I was extremely...
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How Rollo May Survived his “Nervous Break Down”
Recently I was appreciating the photographs of a woman whom I admire tremendously – pictures of her garden, the ocean, a number of stunning landscapes, an osprey nest, and an eagle in flight. As a...
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To all those Abused as Children
The following is a poem by wise and compassionate poet, counselor, and retired Episcopal priest, Alla Renee Bozrath that I first discovered in the book, “Life Prayers: 365 Prayers, Blessings and...
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A Story of Heart Break and a Story for our Time
I just finished reading Rocky Braat’s blog, a young man who is devoting his life to serving poor orphaned and abandoned children stricken with aids in India I read his blog surrounded by...
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My Dark Ages: Years that have Shattered, Tested and Transformed Me (Part Three)
Then my world exploded. Kristen shared a terrible secret that she’d been baring the weight of alone for far too long. When she was a child, a family member had sexually and emotionally abused her...
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