Understanding PTSD through Compassion

Sometimes, kids or teens can be labeled as “bad,” “difficult,” or “defiant.” But when we look closer, we often find trauma lying beneath those behavioral health challenges. This truth doesn’t … Read More

Music: The Sound of Our Feelings

Remember the last time you heard a song you hadn’t listened to in ages and could recite every single word? Or how a song takes you back to a time or a place, and gives you that feeling you haven’t experienced in what seems like forever? That's just one example of how music affects emotion. I can. In fact, it happens for me all the time, and the music I’m listening to now will do the same for me in the years to come. Read More

Stronger Together

A few years ago, I fell in love with a well-known saying in the Functional Family Therapy world: "No one is to blame… and everyone is responsible." Initially, this was … Read More