As we begin a new year, it's important to recognize that new beginnings include telling your own story.

Here are some questions whose answers offer clues about whether you are dealing with someone who is emotionally abusive. Proceed with caution and talk about it if you don’t like what you see.

After survivors learn the tactics of coercion and attend to their injuries, they can focus on how to respond in ways that empower them and disempower the controller. They do this by learning how to keep abusers’ blame, negation, and gaslighting from having power over them.  

One of the most significant emotional injuries from intimate partner abuse is loss of self-esteem.

The term “victim” does not identify who anyone is, nor does it reflect on their worth. It denotes what happened to them.

Acknowledging what we don’t know represents strength when we use our curiosity and “inner scientist” to learn about it

The Burning Bowl ceremony is about releasing what no longer serves us. The White Stone ceremony is about welcoming something into your life that you want to grow toward or find..

Next steps are always scary. We don’t know what they will be like—not really—until we take them. Each of the paths listed above encompasses many steps. We can set off, but we cannot outline each step, each curve, each boulder along the way, and when we think we have to, it stops us from ever setting off.

We often want to retaliate and give people a dose of what they’ve given us, but this does not maintain our power.

I counsel everyone who is embarking on something new to expect feeling fearful. It usually feels like jumping off a cliff. All the insecurities we have (and we all have them) jump out to convince us we can’t make it.

"The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger...

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he...

Poise is a state of balance. We can see this physically when we view poised people moving with grace and agility. If thrown off balance,...

Is she a bitch or a leader? Is he a wuss or a sensitive man? Both these questions help us become more aware of underlying biases and...

It is often an irony that we fear what we also want. We may want success in some particular way, but we are terrified of achieving it...

There are two kinds of fear . One is the realistic fear that we experience when we're in danger. This is rational and self-preservative...

My neighborhood came through a line of storms with much loss of trees. When I walked around, I was moved by the giant root systems that...

We all have times of crisis in our lives. I like to remind myself as well as others that the symbol for "crisis" also means "opportunity"...

We are constantly making meaning of our world through our thoughts.  All thoughts are neither true nor untrue, they simply are.  ...

Birthing is for everyone ! If you're male, I hope you don't stop reading. The metaphor of giving birth is an apt one. Manifesting what...