Trauma-Informed Leadership and Workplace Culture Insights

Connecting Fight Flight Freeze to Trauma Brain and what is happening in the world.

Six years ago, our family gave up Christmas! That's right, we gave it all up: no tress, no decorations, no fancy ham dinner and...

I try really hard on this blog to bring you thoughts and ideas that you might not have heard before. I try to speak not only from my personal experience in the foster care system, but from helping numerous clients through the criminal justice system and from listening to the stories of countless individuals who have chosen me to share their stories. I want to try and tackle the issues that are difficult to talk about; those that we try to box up and pretend aren't happening.

Since the release of Garbage Bag Suitcase, I have had some interesting human encounters. I have traveled around the country and even into...

Lying is a topic that I have been meaning to cover on this blog for sometime, but frankly every time I sit down to write it, I get...

I was recently asked to be on the Incarcerate US podcast that is hosted by Dante Nottingham, an inmate who has been locked up since the...

I have written before about how I was a self-help book addict. I read every book I could find, re-reading several of them and even going...

A NATION TRIGGERED Using Powerful Questions to Coach Ourselves to Bi-Partisanship It’s official: in the United States we have a new...

Writing for this blog is sometimes problematic for me. I try to be as transparent as possible and talk about the things that are truly...

I have never really been good at relationships. Intimacy scares me, and trust is something that is earned. When I travel now, speaking...