Nov 24, 2018 | grief & loss, Trauma
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown “Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings – we strive to...
Nov 24, 2018 | grief & loss, Trauma
Salt by Nayyirah Waheed “Salt is a journey through warmth and sharpness. This collection of poetry explores the realities of multiple identities, language, diasporic life & pain, the self, community, healing, celebration, and love.” (ref Amazon)...
Nov 23, 2018 | grief & loss, Trauma
Peter Levine: Waking The Tiger – Healing Trauma. “Nature’s Lessons in Healing Trauma… Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and...
Nov 23, 2018 | grief & loss, Trauma
Babette Rothschild: The Body Remembers “This book shines a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory. It is now thought that people who have been traumatized hold an implicit memory of traumatic events in their brains...
Nov 23, 2018 | grief & loss, Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps The Score – Mind Brain And Body In The Transformation Of Trauma “The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world’s experts on traumatic stress...
Nov 13, 2018 | Blog, grief & loss
In this article we will consider how grief and loss may hide in everyday experiences and offer some ideas on how we might better understand ourselves or others who are in pain with grief. Supporting someone who is grieving may seem simple, however anyone who has been...
