Content Warning: This amazing story of hope and healing includes references to sexual trauma. By Janell P Sitting in Dr. B’s office for my first EMDR session, she asked me what had brought me to see her. I told her, “After everything that has happened to me, I do not know if I am capable […]
By Mary Nikkel I remember when I was younger, I struggled to accept and understand why a lot of my peers found Frodo either forgettable or material for mocking. I understand it a little better now: the movies DO often make him not particularly likable or watchable. The book portrays him as someone who doesn’t […]
A few days ago, this overweight pastor, Stewart-Allen Clark of Missouri’s Malden First General Baptist Church, was forced to step down from his position for promulgating sexism, male entitlement, and rape culture. Not by the men who laughed through his contemptible tirade against fat, stinky, non-trophy wife women in his congregation. No, they all sat […]
Anxiety is a bio-physiological response of the body to threat. In other words, a somatic response, coming from the threat perception system in our brain (the amygdala). This threat is subjective and in response to feelings spawned from an event that does, or appears to, endanger human connection. We were created to be in connection. […]
Most people think that need meeting happens all in the present tense. However, the psychology of feeling that your needs are met in the present involves the past, the present and the future. When we search around in our heads to “see” if we are okay, our minds look for memories from the past that […]
