Posts Categorized: announcement

Trauma, trauma everywhere

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I have often told people I’m training that one of my goals is to put myself out of business. As a specialist in trauma, I work with survivors of the worst that humans can do to one another. And thus in my optimistic heart I try to imagine a day when the supply of work… Read more »

Unpredictable

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So, to the Big Island of Hawai’i I went in March. Spent hours every day in front of the computer, looking out over the ocean and the tide pools at Kapoho, writing until my fingers hurt. When I returned to Seattle at the end of the month I had most of a book done. I… Read more »

On not paying prices

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My process as a writer is a bit like a pregnancy. My brain gets fertilized with an idea, often something that enough of my clients are talking about that I am pointed by them in a particular direction. Then the idea grows and gestates; I walk to work turning concepts over in my head. I… Read more »

Healing in the hard places

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I recently spent the weekend at the annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, where I was pleased to receive the status of Fellow of the Society for the work I’ve been doing in my professional career. It was one of those conferences where I wasn’t presenting, and so… Read more »

On not quitting the day job

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Among the workshops I’ll be giving at the convention of the American Psychological Association in August is one based on a book chapter I published last year, titled On not quitting my day job. It’s a very personal reflection on the process of moving through a difficult passage in both personal and professional life at… Read more »