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Parenting after ACEs: Small Changes & Huge Differences

Cissy White — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:03:39 +0000

(Part 2 & Part 1) I didn’t know how well a cry could be soothed, warmed, tended. I didn’t know how satisfying it would feel to cuddle, coddle, and cradle my baby girl. She was so tiny, only 10 pounds though ten months, because of living in an orphanage without enough food or love. I […]

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When Safety Isn’t the First Song

Cissy White — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 04:33:04 +0000

How does one learn great self-care well with a self that wasn't well-cared for as a baby, toddler, or kid?

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Healing Proof: The Words & Work of Rick Hanson

Cissy White — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:34:51 +0000

I’ve been thinking and talking a good deal about Rick Hanson since my recent break-up. It’s the work I’ve done, that I’ve learned from him, that has made such a deep and profound change in my own healing. Healing is such a soft sounding word and what I feel is a new sense of being, […]

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Allegations of employee mistreatment roil renowned Brookline trauma center (www.boston.com) & commentary

Cissy White — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:58:59 +0000

Boston Globe News Story Excerpt: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a best-selling author on trauma whose research has attracted a world-wide following, has been fired from his job over allegations that he bullied and denigrated employees at his renowned Trauma Center. Van der Kolk was removed as medical director of the Brookline center in January, […]

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PTSD in Love

Cissy White — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:33:11 +0000

I can’t get the words he said out of my skin. They point, prick and stab. The ones I said stick in and out. We are dangerous, sharp, messy and impossible to move towards. I want to turn back to paper cuts wounds that annoy and splinter. They can be removed and soothed. But we are past […]

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