"Adverse Childhood Experiences are the single greatest public health threat facing our nation today." - Dr. Robert Block "How we respond to CV-19 situation as individuals, families and communities will set the stage for hurt or healing of humanity in decades to come." - Jo Lyn Cornelsen Holistic RN "When you study prison populations, you see a preponderance of childhood trauma and mental illness. The two go together. So what we have in prisons are the most traumatized people in our society."...

We’ve been contemplating our post-retirement move – which quickly became an adventure in house hunting. Not being as physically strong and capable as in years past, one of the thoughts that kept coming up for me was: “Who am I to have a house of my own?” , and “I have no value as a human being, what makes me think it is okay to have a house?” Self-deprecating thoughts are, of course, self-defeating. Negative thoughts bring up deeply held emotions of shame, self-loathing, guilt for taking up...