Resources and Support for Healing
For those of you living in New York, you may want to check out this article and add your voice to this process: A state assemblyman is drafting legislation that would close a legal loophole, first reported by the I-Team, that keeps statutory rape complaints about psychotherapists from being forwarded to law enforcement by the …
Today on Change.org I discovered a petition to introduce a bill in Maryland called “Lynette’s Law.” The woman who drafted the petition, Heather Sinclair, alleges that she was a victim of therapist abuse by a man who was a convicted felon. Sinclair hopes to pass a law in Maryland that would require all therapists to …
The following is a guest post from Ellie Eaton, a member of our community. Ellie offered to share this wonderful piece of creative writing with us. You can also find this piece on the Survivor Creativity page. Scars by Ellie Eaton I fell this week in my classroom. I landed hard, and got a large …
I read an interesting article today on SF Gate. A study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs looked at biological stress indicators of police academy recruits before and after traumatic events and discovered a connection between waking cortisol levels and more stressful reactions to trauma: The study …
So I just heard from Dr. T . . . Yes. Really. (If you haven’t read my post from earlier this week called “The Sighting,” now would be a good time to catch up.) I guess he did see me at Whole Foods, because in today’s mail there was a note from him. I saw the …
Saw this wonderful quote from Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather’s Blessings (two books I adore), and thought I’d share: Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is …