This article explores how, despite the sorrow it brings, trauma engenders a rebirth, in which the victim becomes greater than ever before.
Tag: Mental Health
Popular Writing: Why It’s Important to Bring Complex Ideas to the World of Ordinary People
Scientific illiteracy is one the most harrowing challenges of our time; on the one hand, the public is chastised for … More
For Love of the Game: Our Broken Health-Care System
“And tonight, he might be able to use that aching, old arm one more time to push the sun back … More
Recovering My Voice: How My Writing Helped Me Overcome Trauma
When we’re children, most of us have a lot of chutzpah, which is a Yiddish word meaning audacity or fearlessness. … More
The Struggle in Solitude – A Poem about Isolation
The struggle in solitude is one which you cannot see The struggle in solitude exists in the midst of all … More
An Existential Death-Blow to Narcissism: Defeating the Excessive Need to Feel Superior
Through ambition and greed, they rose. Through force and strength, they conquered. Through status and influence, they flourished. The great … More
It’s the Relationship that Heals
So many of the qualities of the work of psychotherapy fascinate me: the inherent intimacy, its progress, the intricacies of … More
Walking in Your Footsteps: My Gratitude to Irv Yalom
In a post several months ago, I wrote a dedication, and a sort of homage, to my college mentor, and … More
Can I Ever Change?: Exploring the Factors that Foster Growth
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read… And … More
Transcending My Self: The Relationship Between Joy and Human Connection
Bowling Alone To most, especially in the Western world, self-actualization means becoming the most accomplished and materially successful version of … More
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