4 Resilience Lessons From A Seven-Year-Old In Brain Surgery

I have a remarkable seven-year-old daughter. Yes, she has her many weaknesses and idiosyncrasies (don’t we all?), but I am amazed and impressed by her resilience in so many ways. My daughter started having seizures in the first few months of her life. We have been in and out of Primary Children’s hospital with EEGs […]

Book Release Today!

I am excited to announce the release of my new book, SIGHT, today. It is a story I really believe in and I am thrilled to have people be able to read it and feel the power of its message. I decided to self-publish for a variety of reasons, but first and foremost is so […]

How Can I Possibly Forgive?

Anger bubbled up from somewhere deep inside me. It was like magma being pushed to the surface from the core, and I felt the heat of it spread through my body. It’s been over twenty years, I thought. How could this possibly elicit this much of an emotional response now? I was at an EMDR […]

How To Get Out Of The Victim Mindset

This last week I made my first attempt at oil painting. For some reason, it is one artistic medium that has always scared me. It’s intimidating. However, as I work toward publishing my first book, I need good book cover art. So, I got out the paints I purchased years ago and stepped into my […]

Don’t Let Your Past Define Your Present

One of the greatest challenges with trauma is how it hijacks our perspective in the moment. It’s like a time machine, constantly jerking us back into the past at the slightest trigger. We end up consistently reliving the worst moments of our lives. This becomes a major barrier in healing our trauma. To understand how […]

Building the Framework of Healing

Terrible things happen.  All. The. Time. The sad fact: it’s just a part of life. It’s inescapable. While there are things we do that can increase the number of terrible things happening around us, thinking that the way we live our life can stop them is an immature perspective. And it is an immature perspective […]

Empathy is Magic

What if I told you there was a magical process that broke down defensiveness, ended hostility, opened people’s hearts, and built connection and intimacy? Would you use it? Would you giggle along with me in awe as you watched relationships improve almost instantly? Most people want a silver bullet to improve their relationships and work […]