My dog proved to be my best friend when I was feeling so ill after my night of pains in my tummy. The morning had been tolerable and we visited my Dad. But during the afternoon I felt very ill and weepy. I kept thinking about my daughter as a new born baby, wishing time couldContinue reading “More on my last step on this Odyssey”
Monthly Archives: December 2016
More Steps Along This Odyssey
It’s been a while again. Talking about the here and now is harder than telling the past. In truth, I often feel as though all that trauma happened to someone else. Or it happened to me in another dimension, when the person I am was much less sophisticated and complex in my personhood. That, atContinue reading “More Steps Along This Odyssey”
Lighting London Bridges
Photo: Leo Villareal, CGIThe New York artist who lit up the San Francisco Bay Bridge, has been selected to do a £20m project illuminating London’s 17 bridges. He is Leo Villareal.He, and British architects and urban planners Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, won from a shortlist of six for what will be one of the UK’s biggestContinue reading “Lighting London Bridges”
Treatment of PTSD
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is as effective as cognitive behavior therapy.EMDR is designed to reduce the enduring symptoms of painful memories by utilizing the brain’s natural adaptive information processing, thus reducing and even ending the powerful effects. There are eight phases that include havingContinue reading “Treatment of PTSD”
The Shame of Sexual Abuse IS Not The Victim’s
Children are told that if they tell anyone that someone they have trusted has touched them in a way that has made them feel uncomfortable or ‘dirty’ something bad will happen to them. This is because the abuser feels shame and knows that what they did was immoral, shameful, and illegal.The abuser breaches all trust with society,Continue reading “The Shame of Sexual Abuse IS Not The Victim’s”