In coming to understand how trauma chips away at our soul, is it any wonder people are looking for validation? Validation is defined as follows: the confirmation of something as true or correct the recognition or affirmation of someone’s worth or value We all want to be seen and heard. We want to know we…

I have come to understand that what trauma does is chip away at the essence of who you are. What you are left with is a shell of the person you are meant to be. That is why we look for things to make us feel better/whole/complete. And what we inevitably do is go after…

I have had back pain for close to thirty years. It culminated in emergency surgery for a herniated disc just over a decade ago. Surgery, once again, is looming. I do not relish the prospect, given it is more complicated this time. It is, in my spine surgeon’s words, for a constellation of symptoms. Come…