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Teaching Children to Trust Their Feelings: What Child Abuse Prevention Month Is Really About
Teaching Children to Trust Their Feelings: What Child Abuse Prevention Month Is Really About

Every April we tell children the rules: say no, tell a trusted adult, don't keep secrets. The rules are necessary. They are also incomplete. Here's what's missing.

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The Most Powerful Child Safety Tool Isn't a Rule — It's a Feeling:
The Most Powerful Child Safety Tool Isn't a Rule — It's a Feeling:

For decades we've given children rules: don't talk to strangers, say no, never keep secrets. These rules are useful — and insufficient.

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What Herschel Walker's Dissociative Identity Disorder Teaches Us About Childhood Trauma
What Herschel Walker's Dissociative Identity Disorder Teaches Us About Childhood Trauma
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Nervous System Healing: A Trauma-Informed look
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Nervous System Healing: A Trauma-Informed look
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The Question We’re Afraid to Ask
The Question We’re Afraid to Ask

“Buried feelings don’t disappear. They accumulate, pressurize, and eventually leak out through rage, numbness, or addiction.”

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When Your Adult Child Cuts You Off: Finding Peace This Holiday Season
When Your Adult Child Cuts You Off: Finding Peace This Holiday Season
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Why You Can't "Think Positive" Your Way Through Grief—And What Actually Works
Why You Can't "Think Positive" Your Way Through Grief—And What Actually Works
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When Family Tragedies Make the News: Early Warning Signs, Prevention, and the Cost of Emotional Suppression
When Family Tragedies Make the News: Early Warning Signs, Prevention, and the Cost of Emotional Suppression
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Human Dysmorphia: The War We Wage Against Our Own Design
Human Dysmorphia: The War We Wage Against Our Own Design
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How Your Body Actually Heals Part 4
How Your Body Actually Heals Part 4
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How Your Body Actually Heals Part 3
How Your Body Actually Heals Part 3
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How Your Body Actually Heals (Part 2)
How Your Body Actually Heals (Part 2)
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Solitude vs. Loneliness: How Your Body Knows the Difference
Solitude vs. Loneliness: How Your Body Knows the Difference

Solitude and loneliness are not the same. Learn how to tell the difference between restorative alone time and isolation that may be affecting your emotional and physical health.

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Breathwork on the Golf Course: Deer-Inspired Tips for Nervous-System Calm
Breathwork on the Golf Course: Deer-Inspired Tips for Nervous-System Calm
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Spiritual, Not Christian? Why That Still Triggers Judgment
Spiritual, Not Christian? Why That Still Triggers Judgment

“Criticizing someone’s spiritual flavor is like complaining your pizza isn’t chocolate—absurd and missing the point.”
— Joy Stephenson-Laws

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What Real Resilience Looks Like For Women Over 60
What Real Resilience Looks Like For Women Over 60
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What We Pass On: “Good People Put Others First”
What We Pass On: “Good People Put Others First”
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Family Is Everything: The Half-Truth I Had to Unlearn
Family Is Everything: The Half-Truth I Had to Unlearn

‘Family is everything' sounds like love, but sometimes it becomes a rule that keeps us tied to relationships that cost us our peace. A personal essay on estrangement, guilt, and loyalty, and the painful freedom of learning that love can matter deeply without requiring you to erase yourself to keep it.

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The Secret To Real Confidence After 60? Trust Your Feeling
The Secret To Real Confidence After 60? Trust Your Feeling
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How to Build the Space Between Feeling and Action
How to Build the Space Between Feeling and Action

Most of us react before we think — not because we lack discipline, but because no one taught us there was a space between the feeling and the reaction. This article explains how to build that space using evidence-based tools and why building it is only half the skill.

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Building the Space Between Feeling and Action
Building the Space Between Feeling and Action

Many well-researched tools build the space between feeling and action. We were never taught how to properly use it.

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Beyond Positive Thinking: The Science of How Interpretation Shapes Health
Beyond Positive Thinking: The Science of How Interpretation Shapes Health

The body does not respond only to events. It also responds to the meanings we assign to them — especially when those meanings are inaccurate, exaggerated, or incomplete. This is not a piece about positive thinking. The point is more precise: the body responds not only to what is happening, but also to how accurately we interpret what is happening. Accurate thinking allows reality to be serious without allowing imagination to become evidence.

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