Abuse and trauma survivors often have a different parental blueprint than those who’ve enjoyed a healthy upbringing. There can be stark oversights, even when it comes to the most basic aspects of living: eating healthily and regularly, going to bed at a decent hour, or tending to a minor injury. In short, much of these [...]

Clumsy talkers tend to interrupt conversations, talk too quickly, be intense, or be overly polite! I know this because I’m a clumsy talker who’s in the process of trying to improve. In a work capacity, my professional communication is fluid: the person with whom I’m trying to build a rapport will have no hint of [...]

Those of you who come from a dysfunctional family likely have a distorted image of self: you have had little or no praise. Reference points, or knowledge of how conventional life-pattern run, feel like a foreign entity. You see examples of cozy families on television, yet they have little bearing on your own experiences. So, [...]

We all enjoy a jolly good giggle. In this challenging era, laughter is a sweetener that helps make our souls feel lighter and is extremely good for our mental wellbeing. Actually, the comedy sector is renowned to peak during times of austerity: we often feel the urge to escape from reality, and we need the [...]

Kintsugi, “golden jewelry”, also known as Kinsukuroi, “golden repair” is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. Formerly imperfect and redundant receptacles once again function with a new beautiful aesthetic. When we compare ourselves to a broken vase - shattered by grief, loss [...]