When we say that school administrators, lead pastors, or management seem to have forgotten what it was like to be ‘the little guy,’ we are r

As I began to heal, I saw the world around me for what I felt like was the first time. I was like a small child discovering the world. There

Instead of fearing tomorrow, delight in today. It has been a long road to accomplishing this because I trained myself to be prepared for any

The day I walked into therapy, I got on a train to a new destination. Scott saw me departing and jumped on board. We have traveled over moun

I was like a small timid child who was terrified to step out on the playground. I needed God to direct me to the monkey bars or the swing. M

When my earrings fell out and bounced across the floor, I was suddenly about six years old in an adult presenter’s body. I could do nothing

I was the child who stopped singing. One Sunday morning when I was about eight, I refused to sing the song, Jesus Loves Me. “Why aren’t you

The second realization had to do with manicures. I knew, without understanding the language being spoken, that no one wanted to give me a ma

This is the human search for normal. Then one day, someone does the unthinkable and we say, “He seemed like a normal guy.” Yes, he did becau

All the while, the children were watching. They still had the capacity to develop two eyes, but they needed to understand what it would feel

The tragedy of the human condition is not in eating the apple, but in the distortion of natural guilt. Our greatest loss is when we no longe

“Please, just keep looking at me and I will be OK.” I was speaking to another woman who also got pulled over ‘for further inspection’ at a

This blog is for everyone who ever had something bad happen. That would be all of us. What if we believe that the God, who can do anything a

Then, one day, I was driving across town and fighting the ever-present anxiety, when I suddenly I realized that my mind was in the middle of

Outside of an understanding of an uncontrolling God there is no potential for truly transcending the human experience of trauma, living life

Jeannie was and is tenacious, but I don’t think there is really anything inside me that is not available to every human being. We are born t

When I include the word therapy in my blog titles, I hear crickets. Maybe I should just randomly include ‘God’ in the titles. Maybe that wou

As much as we want to deny that an inner child still lives inside of us and is the core of who we are, it is the absolute truth. When I snea

My story of trauma is not unique. Statistically one in four (or five) have experienced some type of sexual abuse—mostly as children. If you

My daughter and I were sitting beside the pool playing a card game. My granddaughter was swimming with a newfound friend about her age. Off