An Example of Verbal Abuse + Emotional Abuse
As an author and advocate for victims/survivors of domestic violence, I’m bringing attention to the topic. Not all forms of domestic violence are life-threatening, but domestic abuse can escalate until someone gets hurt. If a friend says of a mutual friend, “Her...
How Can Yoga Serve Our Troops? Resources for our Vets & Military
" Within the first five minutes of my first yoga class, I was knocked out and I slept through the whole class. But when I woke up, I felt rested for the first time in years. I actually felt like I had some good sleep. And that was a big, big turning point for...
Why we don’t teach our children about “grooming’ of sex predators!
The child caught in a predator's grasp or the adult dealing with the lifelong effects of being caught in a predator's hands asks the same haunting question, "Why didn't someone tell me." I invited a friend to visit my website and her instant response was, " I really...
Death With Dignity: This Week on BROADSIDED
The subject of death is truly the last taboo in America. No one wants to talk about it, but as usual, we take on the tough topics. The truth is, none of us wants to watch a loved one suffer, but the guilt we endure as humans in discontinuing life support keeps us from...
You Can’t Touch This: An Interview with Trauma Healing Rebel Sue Jones
We’re going to reach a critical mass as these yoga practitioners who are also social workers, therapists, and people who work with healing populations or at-risk populations, will personally experience how yoga creates shifts in the way they see themselves and how they interact with the world.
Beyond what My Mind Can Hold
Glancing through the book “Truth vs Falsehood” by David Hawkins, I read this headline, “Cultism”…so here it is. “Cults ensnare the unwary by their specialness and false promises. Members have ‘insider’ status and a special ‘lingo’. The group leader is charismatic,...
Nothing to Make you Stay
My sister’s words bounce off the walls of the now empty room where a family used to reside like a hollowed out cavern absent of love and life. Dead. Each time a family member walks up, seeking to reconnect I turn the light on, open the space, and ready it up with hope...
Held on so Tightly
My sister’s words bounce off the walls of the now empty room where a family used to reside like a hollowed out cavern absent of love and life. Dead. Each time a family member walks up, seeking to reconnect I turn the light on, open the space, and ready it up with hope...
Great Rivers flowing to the Sea
While watching Oprah yesterday I was able to see how another girl is working to make sense of her abuse by her father. Although she also has to come to terms with her actions of killing him, she spent 18 years in prison. In prison she had no therapy, no help to sort...
