Counseling Connoisseur

Nicolas was just under 3 years old when he attended his grandfather’s funeral. He wandered through the sea of adults, holding tight to his mommy and daddy’s hands as he made his way to the front of the line where his grandfather lay…

“Thou shalt not be a  perpetrator, thou shalt not be a victim, and thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.” ― Yehuda Bauer   The sun warmed my body. Blissfully fatigued following several laps around the pool, I stretched out on the…

Thanatechnology: Any kind of technology that can be used to deal with death, dying, grief, loss and illness.   Kelly (an alias), an eighth-grader, sits with her friends in the school auditorium as her principal calls out the names of…

“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”― Euripides   Recently I was invited to provide an afternoon keynote at a conference examining community trauma and human violence. The morning keynote speaker, Reverend Matt Crebbin,…

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” ― Audre Lorde   The familiar buzz from my bedside wakes me. Squinting, I pick up my cell phone, and I see that a client is…