Emotional Safety: How to Create It
At times, when our life is difficult, we can seek a place of emotional safety. When we find it, such a place can be comforting and can allow us to
The Mysterious Behaviour of Others
Sometimes we are mystified by the behaviour of others. They say and do things that we just don’t understand no matter how hard we try. They do things which seem
Attuned Responsiveness: the Difference it Makes
I have recently been re-watching the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers (and reading the original account written by Stephen Ambrose at the same time). It is a true story, and
Dilemmas – Nothing But Bad Choices
This is my (slightly edited) response to another author’s post on his blog. The author contended that being a victim to circumstances – or rising above it – was always
PTSD: The Longest War
A break from the my series on Affect – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) seems like such a Twentieth Century phenomena, but it has long been the end result of
Adult-Onset Psychological Trauma
Adults and children who experience massive psychological trauma cope and deal with it in different ways; it’s the children who seem to cope better. How is adult-onset trauma different from