I'm often puzzled by the way people think about words;  which words offend them and which ones they think nothing of using.  The obvious example is the "f" word. So many people are highly offended by this, even when it is used to benignly...

Therapists sometimes develop effective therapeutic interventions in very unusual ways.  I discovered a powerful intervention for olfactory flashbacks by mere coincidence. I remember when I first started working with trauma survivors I had...

A lot of people assume that rape, molestation and incest are about sex and seduction, but they aren't. All three forms of sexual abuse are about abuse, not sex.  It is not about being sexually aroused, it's about power, manipulation and...

...one woman is courageously documenting her process of healing, including her battles with the psychiatric community and their insistence on diagnosing and medicating her.  You can read her blog at Invincible Summers.  I highly recommend it.

Often, when walking alone at night scanning the environment for danger, I have had minority males accuse me of being racist.  "You thought the Mexican was going to get you, huh?"   "You're keeping an eye on the Black guy, hmm?"  You bet I am.  But...