:: Beyond people-pleasing (part I)

THE LEGACY OF A PARENT-CENTERED CHILDHOOD
Grow up with inept parents and you’re apt to become a people-pleaser.
In families with parents who meet the essential needs of their children – which at the least are physical safety, physical support (food and health care), social inclusion, and training in self-management of emotions – children are primarily focused [...]

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:: Our shameful response to military PTSD – we need to act NOW

I was a college kid during the time of Vietnam. My bad eyes kept me from going. I watched others my age come home, and some of them stumbled. I read about the psychological wounds of war. And later I learned that it was this war which finally forced us to formally recognize Posttraumatic Stress [...]

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