Category Archives: Trauma

Singing for Joy after Trauma: My Music Video!

On February 28, 2018, I published a hair-raising book on my first six years facing crushing infant trauma, Don’t Try This Alone: The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder, now at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1976120128 On April 11, 2018, I was singing for joy … Continue reading

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Parenting as We Were Parented

CLICK to BUY “Don’t Try This Alone”! “License to Parent,” the new film by George Siegal, will be out soon. He interviewed kids to see how it felt to be parented, and often it wasn’t good (photo, left). In a … Continue reading

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My Book’s Amazon Reviews: Music & Healing

I’m so grateful to have fourteen (!) 5-star reviews on Amazon of my book Don’t Try This Alone: The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder.  Click on the excerpt at left for samples. Below are other quotes.  More here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1976120128#customerReviews “The … Continue reading

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Six-City Bus Tour: Campaign to Heal Childhood Trauma

Join me and my friends at Calo Programs, Attachment and Trauma Network (ATN), the American Adoption Congress (AAC) and the Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children (ATTACh) for their “Campaign to Heal Childhood Trauma.” It’s a six-city … Continue reading

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Now a Kindle eBook: “Don’t Try This Alone!”

I’m done!  I’ve just finished a seven-year trek to publish my book, first in paperback, and now as a Kindle eBook.  Here’s my Kindle: “Don’t Try This Alone: The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder” – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BN2J4TN My Kindle link above … Continue reading

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“Don’t Try This Alone” Live on Amazon

Don’t Try This Alone: The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder is live on Amazon in paperback!  Please forgive my long absence, but I had to finish it. Click the photo to see the full cover. Click here to buy: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1976120128 … Continue reading

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Dreaming of a Safe America – Laura Kerr

This guest blog by Dr. Laura Kerr, PhD, Stanford University, really struck me.  For Americans as people, and our government, she notes, “unconscious dreams and unresolved traumas influence our defensive reactions to threat, much like the child that suffers chronic … Continue reading

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“Heal trauma? Start with the body”

“Bessel van der Kolk wants to change the way we heal a traumatized mind — by starting with the body,” reports Jeneen Interlandi in the New York Times Magazine May 22. (Dr. van der Kolk in session drawn by Matthew … Continue reading

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Bruce Perry and Children’s Choirs

I’ve reported Dr. Bruce Perry’s in Washington May 4 to talk on healing trauma at the National Council. What’s that got to do with this sculpture of children singing in the Cathedral of Florence in 1436 to kick off the … Continue reading

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Developmental Trauma: What You Can’t See…

CLICK to BUY: “Don’t Try This Alone” Developmental Trauma: What you can’t see, can hurt you. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD (left) and leaders in brain science and attachment are calling for a hard look at developmental trauma.  Developmental … Continue reading

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