Re-shared for all the dads who nurture their children! This is my day before Mother’s Day epiphany: My dad was my mother. I blogged...

In the Spring of 2020, the Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) staff and Board had to make a difficult decision. We decided our next...

This is my whimsical take on the fact that I didn't explain very well that Jeannie's BRAVE Childhood was the book I wrote for teachers....

“What would have helped me as a child?” I try to answer this in Jeannie’s BRAVE Childhood: Behavior and Healing through the Lens of...

About midway through my healing process, I came to the realization that I did not know how to play, at least not with the abandonment of...

From the time I was in high school, I dreamed of one day completing a doctorate. It was a mixture of desiring validation and the simple...

This morning I decided to catch up on my son's recent sermons and God met me there—not in necessarily pleasant ways, but certainly...

For children who have experienced trauma, feeling safe is an essential need which is difficult to meet.

The concept of self-soothing is key to understanding addictive behaviors.

How do you gently encourage someone to not just recognize their need for healing but to move toward it before they reach the breaking point.

With an understanding of the effects of trauma, the church has unlimited potential for being a healing church.

As the protests began, I understood the purpose; when they turned violent, I also understood some of the conditions that fed that violence.

It is impossible to know what a day will bring; it is also impossible to know when something a day brings might end out to be very important

Have you ever stood and watched the sun rise over the mountains? First there is a glow. Then a glimmer. Then an explosion.

Some days are not what we expect. This was true of my day at Brumby Elementary School in Marietta, Georgia. I was invited by former...

The mother and daughter were two of five who missed the plane. There had been plenty of announcements, but they didn't get there in time.

This presentation was certainly going to take me deeper than I would ever choose for my feet to wander.

Allowing myself to feel my feelings while being triggered is part of healing and to be able to do this is what “healed” feels like.

Yesterday I sat on a community panel on the topic of teen mental health.That was surprising, but not as surprising as sitting between two te

I have served in churches and church-related ministries in two denominations that believed very differently about the roles of women in mini