Category: Family
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A Spanking or Beating or Whipping or Whuppin?
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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.