As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.” — Kurt Cobain There is something undeniably magnetic about watching an artist fall apart and then rise, singing about the wreckage, painting it in ...

Trauma fundamentally changes us. It’s not just a bad experience—it’s an overwhelming force that floods our system with more than we can handle. When I work with clients struggling with past wounds, I ...