What if a child has been abused? What if you suspect abuse? The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a world leader in finding and caring for minors who have been lost, possibly abused, or indeed abused or trafficked. They work closely with national, state, and local...
For survivors, managing money is a life skill that develops along with other self-care practices. Fortunately, there are secure budgeting apps that can help. Forbes columnist Kristin Stoller did a round up of the best budgeting apps in 2020. Options exist for the numerically challenged, for visual learners, and...
i thank You God for most this amazingday:for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today,and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birthday of life and...
This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas Alice Miller’s book, now known as The Drama of the Gifted Child, became an icon of the self-help and recovery book market. One reason is that it hit the market when new cultural trends were developing–and converging....
The power of narrative is incorporated into programs as diverse as international and collective conflict resolution through individual and private psychotherapy. Constructing a narrative can rebuild communities, families, and individual lives. It is an important element in restorative justice approaches. Arthur Frank’s book The Wounded Storyteller, suggests one way...
This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas This story of Alice Miller’s first book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, ended last week (click here) as it hit the U.S. market with little fanfare. Even though it was about to change how a generation...
October 7th the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offered a virtual rosary for all of America in this time of pandemic and suffering. For those of our readers who are close to the rosary, here is a link to the YouTube video that features the diversity of the...
Excerpted from Amid Pandemic, Clergy-Abuse Support Groups Go Virtual, by Barb Umberger in The Catholic Spirit (catholicspirit.com), the diocesan newspaper of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis – St. Paul. “Since starting in June 2019 as the archdiocese’s outreach coordinator for restorative justice and abuse prevention, Paula Kaempffer has developed a...
This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas Alice Miller’s first book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, radically changed how we approach trauma and therapy today. It announced a ground-breaking theory that upbringing is what causes mental illness. This idea has permeated how people...
Grief is on the mind and heart lately, with a fresh new intensity, as I let go of my dog Finnegan Quinn after his recent death. It occurs to me that grief is the nature of life in a fallen world. It is also the nature of recovery from...