In Part 1 of this post, we looked at how our trauma may echo throughout our lives, affecting how we meet stressful or threatening conditions arising later in life. A common effect of unresolved trauma is to harden ourselves against feeling pain again. This can lessen our compassion for suffering others, perpetuating a cycle of […]

It is over three weeks since the news of the mass shooting at a Florida high school shocked the world once again. I still feel the reverberations within me. My clients, students and supervisees often resonate with these feelings. Sadness at the immensity of life lost. Anger at the perpetuation of gun laws but even […]