In This Moment

The following is adapted from a recent assignment in seminary. The professor used an actual event from his own life to ask us to examine a...

I recently returned from a gathering of my peers (fellow liberal Swedenborgian ministers) in beautiful Laport, Indiana.  I was asked to gi...

First let me say that trauma is a continuum.  Part of me doesn't feel legitimate naming myself as someone recovering from trauma, but en...

In my experience, healing from psychological trauma and childhood abuse includes re-experiencing the feelings associated with those traumas....

I was sitting in my addictions counseling class yesterday reflecting on our cultural assumptions about what each other should and should n...

"So many of us feel a sense of broken-heartedness or disappointment in ourselves for all the times we’ve tried and failed.  But i...

The human condition is simply to want to be loved, to know one is okay, to have enough, and to give what one loves to give.  Old wounds an...