Category: Family
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A Spanking or Beating or Whipping or Whuppin?
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Family Violence including Domestic and Child Abuse can lead to ever-present anxiety, depression, compromised self-respect and respect for others. The ‘Flight, Fight or Freeze’ response continues to become activated by stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol into adulthood.
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Limiting Factors and Defining Characteristics: What Are Yours?
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Letting our early experiences and traumas define us can contribute to a replay of hurts from the past. Let’s look at how our Defining Characteristics and Limiting Factor affect our potential for living life.
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Tangling with Safeway Stores – An Alternate Reality
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Sometimes someone says or does something that triggers old experiences. This time for me it was crazy-making communication by the Safeway Stores Claims Manager – full of denials, deflections, and evasions.
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The Not Knowing is Excruciating – The Malaysia Airlines Mystery
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The mystery of the missing Malaysian Airlines 777 brings up memories of the agonizing wait for news connected to a plane crash many years ago. It’s the not knowing that is so excruciating.
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Tips for Suriving the Holidays
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The Holidays can bring on family tensions and gift-giving disappointments. Tips for stress-free Holidays.
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Reflections on Growing Up In the Shadow of the Navy Yard
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The Washington DC Navy Yard shootings bring both sadness and reflections on growing up in the neighborhood of 7th and L streets, SE.
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Coping with the Boston Marathon Bombing
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When we are paralyzed by fear in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings and a small voice whispers – “What’s going to happen to me?” Here’s how to cope with the resulting traumatic stress.