Trauma and Healing

“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”  ― Dr. Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score:…

“Healing from trauma requires safety and stabilization.  They are necessary ingredients for forming an alliance, a safe connection, with the trauma survivor so that they can look back at what was overwhelming and traumatic and begin to speak and feel and integrate those memories into…