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How Past Sexual Abuse Can Show Up As (Harm) OCD

Understanding the presence of scary thoughts, impulses, and sensations in child abuse survivors (but can occur with anyone).

A Vignette of Life as a Pediatric Cancer Mom

A hugely moving insight into the life of a parent of a pediatric cancer victim. We always feel deeply for young patients, but the parents bear their own kind of trauma.

Old Theories, Questionable Experts, and Mental Disturbances Need to Be Deconstructed

Zeitgeist is a word we don’t often use today, but it is as relevant today as it was when I attended graduate school. Yet, we...

If You Don’t Want Chronic Pain, Focus on What You DO Want.

The life I live today is not perfectly pain-free, happy, or balanced 100% of the time. Instead, it’s something so much more fulfilling and rewarding to me than a life centered around being “pain-free.”