As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...
The alluring, but spurious, notion that all our problems stem from childhood has infiltrated our society. On the final lap of his book tour last March, Prince Harry sat in a comfy armchair on a living ...
Generational trauma — the psychological and physiological effects experienced by subsequent generations of those who first experienced trauma — has become one of the most resonant buzzwords of our ...
There are a lot of big subjects that our culture has trouble talking about: wealth, death, addiction, religion. But one of the toughest has to be sexual assault and rape. For how common sexual ...
When I think about what is discussed when talking about Indigenous literature, I often think about what isn’t out there yet or what there isn’t enough of. What do we need more of? What type of stories ...
Several theater productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including drama, comedy and musicals, deal with the effects of psychic pain. By Houman Barekat Reviewing from Edinburgh “We had to look ...