An Exhausted Faith is a book about healing, and healing includes developing self-regulation skills. While a traumatized body cannot force itself be calm, you can care for your body in ways that help it believe peace is possible.

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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.

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