When Healing Feels Lonely: What I Now Know About Peace

“Avoiding your triggers isn’t healing. Healing happens when you’re triggered and you’re able to move through the pain, the pattern, and the story, and walk your way to a different ending.” ~Vienna Pharaon I thought I had figured it out. For a year, I had been doing the “inner work”—meditating daily, practicing breathwork, journaling, doing […]

Healing the Invisible Wounds of War

By Robert Koffman M.D., M.P.H. In the more than two decades of continuous combat since 9/11, more than 7,000 American service members have been killed in action. Yet death by suicide has claimed far more of America’s warriors: A staggering four times more lives have been lost to suicide than to military action. The statistics […]

What I Know About Healing Now That I’ve Ended Contact with My Mom

“Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing in the world force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren’t inherently bad people, but they aren’t the right […]