Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

The family is both mystery and reality; it houses our bodies and our spirits.

Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.

Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.