"There's a hole in the world tonight

There's a cloud of fear and sorrow

There's a hole in the world tonight

Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow"

     Judging ourselves and finding that we come up short is endemic in our high-powered, fast-paced world.  We say things to ourselves that we'd never consider saying to a loved one. "Well, I blew that."  "What a jerk I am."  "I am hopeless." Harsh self-talk is an insidious and destructive

     I woke up knowing that my new puppy's name would be Gabriel. My husband was well into the process of finding me an animal that he could train as a Service dog to help me with walking, stability, and balance. We chose an Airedale terrier from a line of Performance Airedales. These were dogs

Last year my life changed forever. I've joined that club no one wants to be in - one of my children died. My 36 year old son, Joseph, died of a brain aneurysm.

In the first blog on Grief, I noted some skillful ways to help someone who is grieving. The depth of the pain when grieving the loss of a child, including

From the moment the decision was made to sell our home and move across the country, to this moment as I sit in my new home to write, there was a span of nearly a year. What was accomplished in that year, essentially creating a whole new life, required considerable effort but no struggle. Struggle is a heavy thing,

"Where a man has a certain fantasy, another man may lose his life, or, breach his spirit."

Carl Jung

I begin with this quote from Carl Jung to demonstrate that Trauma is endemic in human society. The sense of the word "breach" as Jung uses it here is "rupture."  The aspect of trauma