You can find your way! Few weekends of my year bring as many tears of joy and tears of sadness as does the Indiana Survivor Transition and Resilience Retreat (STARR) weekend for the families of fallen service men and women. I see old friends, make new ones, and get the…
Listen. Be still. Take a moment and see how quiet you can be. Technology is a tool, an important one, but don’t let it make you the tool! It’s a Skill Listening is a lost skill in our information age. We scan for what we want to see and hear,…
The Panic of Loneliness At a recent class I was teaching on PTSD and trauma one of the students responded with one of the bravest, most profound statements I’ve gotten as feedback in a class. It was all law enforcement officers, and we were discussing the question, “What is something…
First responders serve us, and it is my honor to serve them. Deputy Eric Overall was one of those I was able to help bear a dark load. As a father, he had suffered an unimaginable loss and bore a heavy burden for it. As a police officer, a constant…
Our Burden’s Odor “It is said that a newly made vessel will preserve for a long time, perhaps permanently, the odor of whatever was poured into it at that time. This can also be said about the atmosphere surrounding children.” St. Theophan the Recluse from The Path to Salvation. I…
Our Lives Are Deep And Wide The psychologist Erik Erikson literally wrote the book on childhood and human development. A towering figure of modern mental health study, his writings on the stages of human development were a watershed moment for understanding our human psychology. In his book, Childhood and Society,…
