Once upon a time, I was a major people-pleaser—a real pushover. I didn’t know where other people ended and I began, and my decisions were based on what would make other people happy or [...]
Many people, when they experience trauma of some kind, retreat into isolation. This is a natural reaction, because when you go through trauma, your view of the world is totally turned [...]
“Trauma and our responses to it cannot be understood outside the context of human relationships… The most traumatic aspects of all disasters involve the shattering of human connections. And this [...]