While answering the question in the title of this series promises to be an humbling experience, looking deeply at the Greek concept of the wounded Self is also going to be more enlightening than you might expect. The information here presented will also help you identify potentially traumatizing behaviour, that is, behaviours you may be enacting...
Read MoreThe ACE interview and diagnosis helps us validate the importance of Adverse Childhood Experiences. But before you take the test, let me show you how widespread, as well as hidden, this topic is to the general population by quoting the director of the A.C.E. study himself: In 1985 I first became interested in developmental life experiences in...
Read MoreWhen thinking of traumatic experiences we are often drawn to images of tragic car accidents, brutal war killings, or major natural disasters, but while these are undoubtedly traumatizing events, and induce shock traumas, trauma responses can be induced with as little as a child being lost in a supermarket. This is why, in trauma-specialist Dr....
Read MoreThe single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw) Have you ever spent hours talking to someone and departed not knowing what was it all about? Or, on the contrary, have you ever had a long talk with someone and left with a sense of empowerment and healing? What happened there? What exactly...
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