Counseling Connoisseur

“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…