Category: Trauma Awareness

Trauma, trust and triumph: psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk on how to recover from our deepest pain

December 4, 2021

“European and American psychiatry have an obsession with analysis and pharmaceuticals, which is partly – especially in the US – about monetisation, with research grants flowing to the most profitable and established fields. Van der Kolk is keenly aware of inequality as a factor in untreated PTSD, and no great fan of capitalism generally. “I’m … More Trauma, trust and triumph: psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk on how to recover from our deepest pain

Unbelievable moments when the Universe is Speaking to You

November 18, 2021

This post is an extract from Oprah.com – 11 Unbelievable trues stories of moments when the universe is speaking to you – by —Michelle Wildgen Life sends us serendipities; it drops little miracles into our laps. You hear your college sweetheart’s favorite song, turn the corner and run into him. You lock your keys in … More Unbelievable moments when the Universe is Speaking to You

Growing up in Survival Mode by Wentworth Miller

August 14, 2021

When you’re in survival mode, your focus is on getting through the day in one piece, and when you’re in that mode at 5, at 10, at 15, there isn’t a lot of space for words like ‘community,’ for words like ‘us’ and ‘we.’  There’s only space for ‘I’ and ‘me.’ In fact, words like ‘us’ and ‘we’ not only sounded foreign to me at 5 and 10 and 15, they sounded like a lie. Because if ‘us’ and ‘we’ really existed, if there was really someone out there watching and listening and caring, then I would … More Growing up in Survival Mode by Wentworth Miller