Heart & Hope Trauma

"Comes a time, when you're drifting, comes a time when you settle down, comes a light feelin's liftin', lift that baby right up of the ground". Read more »

The best description I know about explaining the commonly used emotional coping mechanism called Denial is to break the word down.   This acronym sums up the true meaning of this word beautifully and accurately in my experience.

DENIAL = Didn't Even No It's A Lie. Read more »

I identify with this blogs title, even though it might sound like absolute madness.   For those who have never comforted themselves through punishment, these words may offer you an insight into others.   Some of us, from time to time, emotionally self sabotage in order to put the brakes on success, love and progress.  It helps us feel calmer and safer. Read more »

Yesterday I looked into the eyes of seventeen Australians in a Brisbane Hospital Detox Unit that looked like they had just survived a violent war.

And they had.

A war with themselves that nearly killed them.

"You are high achievers and it is a privilege for me to be sitting here with you today?" I began as the group of men and women sat in their hospital gowns in a semi circle around me. Read more »

Without hope, it really doesn't matter how much you have or how much you know emotional bankruptcy is inevitable.  An emotionally bankrupt person quite simply, has lost heart strength.  What keeps a heart strong and emotionally fit and flexible?  It's not rocket science.  It's Hope and Love. Read more »

Shit makes great fertilizer... If you want to grow beautiful roses, you will need some manure. When I meet people in rehabs and jails who say to me that they ‘can’t get their shit together’ or that they have had ‘so much shit go down in their lives’ this is when I remind them of this phrase. Read more »