So how have you been? Unless you're an essential worker during this COVID-19 crisis, I think it's safe to assume that you are spending a...

Does anyone here bite their fingernails? Ok, I’ll admit, I do. I bite my nails. It’s not something I’m proud of. But I’d bet my last meditation cushion that most of you do this too sometimes. I also pick at my fingers when I’m concentrating on something or lost in thought. And if you know me well enough, you also know it got me thinking. Why do we do this? I pondered this a bit (probably while picking my nails) and then a picture appeared in my mind of many of my trauma patie

Hey. Hey you! Hey, wake up! Open your sweet eyes…Time to wake up. Come on, time to start your life! Reluctantly, you open one eye but...

I’m writing this thousands of miles above the earth. Sitting in an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean with nowhere to go. Like, trapped, in other words. Sitting duck, so to speak. It’s kind of freaky, to be honest. My daughter is two seats next to me and has grown increasingly terrified of flying. I held her hand during take off, at every bit of turbulence I explain that it’s just a bump in the road. And even while we were in the airport, I instructed her to focus on her brea