When you pity sick people, you disempower them (including yourself). A young girl with Cystic Fibrosis understood this very well. She knew she would be sick for the rest of her life, but she didn’t let that stop her. Instead, she used her understanding and passion to help others. If she can do it, so …
Whether from childhood or adult relationships, the devastating effects of betrayal are the same: we develop a seeming lack of ability to trust both ourselves and others. How often have we asked ourselves if we are even capable of loving someone wholly? Or disbelieved when someone has told us they love us? Often CSA survivors …
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris discusses “How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime”. “Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of …