Here’s What I Know
November 1st, 2022 | by Megan Kennedy
I imagine them in their bed. Him pulling out a gun from underneath his pillow
Browsing the "trauma" Tag
Iceberg, Right Ahead and Right Behind
July 7th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
His first grade class had a Dress As What You Want To Be When You Grow Up Day. There was my kid, as the captain of the Titanic
The Secret Drawers: Abortion at Age 12
May 24th, 2022 | by Rachel Penn Hannah
That night I thought a lot about how Johnny denied that he had ever touched me.
If, At First, Love Doesn’t Sweep Over You
April 28th, 2022 | by Kate Martin Rowe
“Can you come out to the car? She’s refusing to get out.” The voice on the phone was hard and
On Raising Black Children and School Violence: Excerpted from LIVING WHILE BLACK
March 17th, 2022 | by Guilaine Kinouani
“The teacher said my hair is too big—I can’t wear a hat, and I need to change it, or I won’t be in the school play."
I Worry About My Young Son’s Memories: What is growing up in Covid times doing to our kids’ development?
February 16th, 2022 | by Rebecca Rolland
As a speech pathologist, I know how important these years are in forming an understanding of what the world is, and how it works
“Ew! YOU survived THAT!?”: Author Kimberly Dark on Tools for Talking About Trauma
October 19th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
No life unfolds without trauma, or without chances for joy
How to Make Pumpkin Bread 15 Years Later
October 5th, 2021 | by Megan Hanlon
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir to combine grief with anger, relief with trauma, her eyes with yours
One More Forgiveness
July 27th, 2021 | by Tiffany Graham Charkosky
This call from my son annoyed me; I’d been gone less than one hour out of the past 5,760 hours. "Mom. The tree fell on our house."
Adoption is Not for the Faint of Heart, or: How I Got Banned from the Comfort Inn
July 8th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
If there were a dozen red flags waving brazenly—her urgent need for money, lack of interest in who we were, trouble with the law—that was kind of the point. That was why Courtney was making an adoption plan