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Nothing in me is defective and I'm still healing.

I have now made the choice to do my best to repair and rebuild myself into a whole and healthy person.

In my experience, my physical and emotional health positively affected my productivity. Are trauma-informed management practices profitable for companies?

One significant fact has emerged from struggling with my past: I've learned to reuse my pain. That may not be a sophisticated way to say it, but it helps me to think of it like that.

"What can I do?"

Men are a vulnerable population, worthy of healing and not just for the purpose of preventing violence against women.

Navigating the land of Oz and staying on the Yellow Brick Road.

What can the Wizard of Oz tell you about how to manage your recovery? A lot!

How can any of us ever forget the images of trauma and pain that the media carried to us from Newtown, Connecticut last holiday season? We coped and mourned, wondered how a person survives this type of loss. We struggled to understand. We held our children ever-closer. For some, we felt a mix of gratitude to be safely with our families and stinging guilt that we were okay when others were is such deep, abiding pain.

Hope is essential to life, especially for those who are forced (or choose) to deal with painful experiences from our past. By biblical (and practical) definition, hope is only possibly when we have not yet obtained that which we are hoping for. “Hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance” (Romans 8:24-25). To endure painful circumstances we must develop a vision of a brighter future, one that is free of our current pain and hardship.