It’s no secret that how you were raised shapes your identity as an adult, not to mention impacts how you parent your own children (mom always pushed us to be our best, so of course you do the same ...

No one gets through life unscathed. But what trauma does to our brains is sometimes a result of factors outside of our control. This is especially true for children. When a fragile, growing brain ...

There's a problem with the way you're talking about trauma online. Or at least that's what several critics have suggested, in one way or another, in recent months. In these pieces and others, I've ...

If trauma isn’t the event, the memory, or the reaction, what is it? Here's a clearer, more hopeful way to understand healing.

As a woman, I’ve had more encounters than I can count on both hands where I've experienced trauma at the hands of a man — whether it’s from being catcalled, or being sexually harassed/abused. Most ...

As humans, many of us loathe the idea of talking about the worst things that have happened to us. Discussing a painful experience can feel humiliating or terrifying. We think we’ll break down and ...

These days, it seems like trauma talk is everywhere you turn. Looking back, signs of an approaching wave were there. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that public conversation about religious ...