Dear friend, if youre getting hit hard by the struggle, you might ask yourself: Why, why should life be this hard? - One thing Im finding helpful is zoom out of the moment, this day to day life, and

When youre caught in the struggle, then how hard it is to imagine that things could be different? - When I was alone, and I could not have sex with a woman I wanted to be with, its been nigh on impo

Tell me - are you the person who follows their own intuition, or likes to think everything through? - Most of us fall somewhere in between, but being on my journey to healing from trauma has changed m

Look, maybe we don’t have the power to change things, but suppose we could, and you go back in time: - Do you know the moment you’d come back, and change? - I once had an affair with a married woman.

There’s a part in each of us that’s so fragile, so hurt by the past that we’re wanting to hide it, protect it - from what? - When I look back on the years of shame, pain, and the guilt that I carried

What’s the biggest compliment anyone has ever given you? - Maybe it’s taken taken you by surprise, made you feel special? - My wife served me with the biggest compliment of my life when she said: - Yo

We all have a story that truly defines you, but - how do you know what is it? - The moment when story of our life starts truly take shape is the moment you're starting to heal. - Because healing is ga

I have an emerging medical situation re: possible cancer. - I’m hopeful, but - I’ve been down that road before. - My instant reaction is daze - the mind goes all soggy, it’s dragging me into the mist…

Like many, I first learned about trauma from Besser van der Kolk’s “The Body Keeps the Score” book. - I was driving from work, and listening to the first chapter where Bessel gets a gift from the army

The most difficult, painful moments that have impact on our lives have this one thing in common: - The mind wants to drift further away from the memory, from the event, so as not to even recall it. -