The Art of Trauma-Informed Care

Resilience is built in three core ways: positive and stable adult relationships, a strong connection to faith and cultural traditions,...

No matter what type of organization you help run, if you are a leader, you should be promoting resilience and agility in the workplace....

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

Recently, I've noticed a plethora of articles written about vulnerability in leadership, empathetic leadership, coaching leadership and...

I live in a world full of people with giant hearts. Its true. Everywhere you look in the world of Human Services and Child Advocacy you...

Sorry I’ve been silent. I’ve been brooding, angry over the system, policies and government. I find it is best that I don’t write when I’m...

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...

It's almost impossible to help a child or a parent in need and not be affected by what we are seeing. This is true for any professional...

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...

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

I make no bones about it, as a foster child, I don’t think I was an easy person to get along with and I certainly wasn’t trying to make...

I am very excited to bring you my first guest blog. In full disclosure, I met Cathy Anther-Fialon, at a webcast on a seminar regarding...

There’s a women standing in front of me at the grocery store. I can see her fidgeting, shifting her weight back and forth. She glances my...

This evening we interview Shenandoah Chefalo (author of the recently published memoir “Garbage Bag Suitcase”) about a blog she recently...

I have attended several funerals during my lifetime. At one, when I was still in high school, I remember watching the mother of a friend...

The state of group homes in B.C. and Alberta has reached crisis level, with a recent B.C. government report revealing problems that range...