The final article in The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas When idols fall, we expect to be shocked, but with Alice Miller there was no surprise. Her dominance in my recovery had eroded over time. Her works served as a crucial stepping-stone in my escape...
This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood. Alice Miller...
You are invited to join a Round Table we have planned for January, in which we’ll publish readers’ reflections on the McCarrick Report as it relates to the vision that brings us all together here. We are inviting survivors and all others who read this magazine to add their...
A Reflection The McCarrick Report struck me as a blip in the news. Coverage was commendable, but strangely brief. A few news groups are using it as a starting point; that is a good sign. Yet, the first news of McCarrick in 2018 had far greater impact. It was...
Men who have been victims of sexual abuse experience both the trauma and the aftermath in unique ways that remain little understood. But that is beginning to change. One in six men in the United States have been sexual abused (compared to one in four women). This statistic represents...
A Catholic Guide for Spiritual First Aid The Trauma Healing Institute and the American Bible Society through its Christian Bible-based trauma healing program have released a Catholic Guide for Spiritual First Aid entitled Beyond Trauma. Beyond Trauma is 76 pages long, including space for taking notes. Its design is...
This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas Over the course of her prolific career, Alice Miller coined terms we find in therapy and along other paths toward recovery from abuse and trauma. The term often is exactly as coined, but sometimes the concept is...
This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas Alice Miller’s many ideas are worth exploring in more detail, but here are a few of the most influential ones in trauma recovery and in our cultural. For many people who are recovering from abuse, it may...
The potential impact of wearing face masks on trauma survivors can be very serious. For some, it feels like a relief to hide a little more in a socially acceptable way. However, “many survivors are on high alert looking for cues of present danger in a world which was...
Jessica Whitaker is a writer, photographer, and mother from Southern California. She has lived with mental health conditions and substance abuse since she was a child, and she finally found answers with a dual diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and bipolar II disorder. Through years of hard work; a...
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