I am not surprised by what is going on right now. I watch everything and none of this is a surprise. There are lots of conversations that need to start happening in the coming days, but one conversation that needs to be had is about how to heal our nation’s collective trauma. How do we heal the traumas in ourselves that make us become trauma […]
Over the course of my career (whether it is in my role of speech pathologist, neurofeedback practitioner, or coach) I have had to help people manage their expectations around change. We have a lot of thoughts around what change should look like, how it should feel, and what will happen as we attempt to get from our known “Point A” to the unknown “Point B”. […]
I think that to a certain contingency of our population, victims of mass shootings (and violent crime in general) aren’t really people. They aren’t people, because they aren’t someone the contingency personally knows. In the contingency’s mind, the people who died are still “theory”. Sociopaths don’t see other people as people. Their brains don’t function in a way that allows them to understand this. But […]
With the dawning of the New Year, many news outlets have been blasting corporate wellness programs for the shams that they are. And rightly so. Corporate “wellness” programs are a way for businesses to engage in the fraudulent behavior of claiming to help their employees and reduce healthcare costs while actually doing nothing at all. Worse, in some cases they add to a culture of […]
The recent presidential election has provided me with a lot of opportunities for introspection and emotional integration. While most people in my circle view me as a liberal, the truth is that I really fall somewhere in the middle, embracing some aspects of libertarian-ism along with other aspects of progressive-ism. This has given me an interesting opportunity to observe both sides of the coin, so […]