Posttraumatic Growth & PTSD Book Hits #1
I celebrated the release of my book Finding the Upside of Down: How Tragedy Can Lead to Remarkable and Dramatic Breakthroughs. We had a party at Living the Dream Brewery and about 60 of my people attended. Within a day the book reached #1 for new releases in...
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It’s Almost Here!
******Update to this post: It's here. Order now! After five years of research and writing, my book is almost ready. The topic is postraumatic growth (This is NOT the cover) The book has been written, edited multiple times, a cover has been created, and the interior...
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Prince Harry Speaks About Mental Health on Mod World Podcast
I'm excited about this new podcast Mod World. In Episode 1 Prince Harry speaks to the Telegraph's Bryony Gordon for the first episode of her new podcast, Mad World, where she interviews guests about their mental health experiences. The half-hour conversation provides...
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EMDR For Sexual Abuse Survivors
Yesterday an acquaintance on social media sent me a private message. She had a question about a type of trauma treatment called EMDR. If you don't know what EMDR is, check out this video. It looks woo-woo, but it is actually a powerful tool that many therapists use....
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The Shocking Way Childhood Trauma Affects Your Physical Health
You may remember in my book Renewed: Finding Your Inner Happy in an Overwhelmed World where I talked about the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE), which shows a scientific link between many types of childhood adversities and the adult onset of physical and...
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Emotional Bubble Wrap Strategies for Living in a Bumpy World
When I was 37, with middleschool children at home, I went to graduate school to study counseling. If you had met me then you would have seen a perfectionistic, seemingly happy young women. But in reality, I hid a lot of shame and massive amounts of unprocessed trauma....
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Anxiety – A Primer
I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, Author, and Teacher at a local university. My tagline is "help for hurting people." Last week I sent out an email asking my subscribers what they wanted me to write more about. Two popular topics were grief and anxiety. So here's...
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Self Compassion and Emotional Agility
A few years ago I made a series of video clips about personality disorders and various types of counseling. They received tens of thousands of views and tons of subscribers. I'm not sure why I stopped doing that, but today I was thinking about my Youtube audience. I'm...
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The Comforting Thing I Learned About God’s Provision
I was 15. I went three days without food. I wanted to die, wanted to walk in front of a car, just have it be over. Depriving myself of food was just one more way for me to bury the pain. Heck, I’d tried guys, drugs, booze. None of those worked. Neither did...
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The Surprising Benefit That Can Come From Experiencing Trauma
The field of psychology used to focus solely on the pathologies of people. In other words, it focused on what makes people depressed, anxious, and unhappy. But the last few decades brought a much needed addition to the field: Positive Psychology. Positive Psychology...
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