Trauma & Healing

Mary Firestone survived the unthinkable. In 2018 she lived through the Montecito mudslide that dropped 200 million gallons of rainfall in 15 minutes, washing away her home. Trapped alone in her bathroom while pregnant, not sure if her husband and four-year-old son were still alive, she wasnt thinking that her trauma was a gift in disguise.

While focused in "America," the lessons here are deeply instructive for "Canadian" humans too. The author of My Grandmother's Hands surveys America's deteriorating democracy and offers embodied practices to help us protect ourselves and our country.

Heal from trauma and PTSD with the martial art of jiu-jitsu--written for survivors, mental health therapists, and trauma-informed martial arts instructors.

Trauma represents a loss of connection with the self and can affect our ability to engage in comfortable long-term intimacy. Unresolved trauma often is the reason why people self-medicate. Relational trauma happens a little bit at a time.

You are not doomed to be trapped by your trauma

Trauma is unresolved pain. It hums in the background of our lives and robs us of the joy, faith, peace, and love we fully deserve.

Drawing on her 25 years of research into brain development as well as decades of meditation practice, Danish psychotherapist Marianne Bentzen shows how neuroaffective meditation—the holistic integration of meditation, neuroscience, and psychology—can be used for personal growth and conscious maturation.