Part 1 — We Can Handle The Truth My world was turned upside down on November 21, 1969. “Mr. Diamond, you’ve done your job,” the nurse told me. “Now you can go to the waiting room. It won’t be long now.” I felt sad to leave now, but also relieved. I had coached my
A year ago I wrote an article “How to Prepare for the Next Pandemic So You Won’t Have to Panic When it Arrives.” At the time, I had hoped we would soon be saying goodbye to Covid-19. I hoped we would have learned to prevent future pandemics. But the virus is still with us and
One of the most important things I learned about The 5 Stages of Love was that too many relationships hit the rocks at Stage 3. It’s at stage 3 that disillusionment sets in and I often hear statements like these from clients. “I still love her, but I’m not in love with her anymore. I
I have been writing a lot lately about The 5 Stages of Love because the ideas and practices in the phrase capture the work I’ve been doing with men, women, and communities since November 21, 1969. Let me invite you to come with me on a short journey into my world. It’s late at night
In 1972 psychologist Ed Tronick first did the “still-face experiment” that forever changed our understanding of the parent-child bond and how our childhood experiences influence the success or failure of our adult relationships. Find out why 12 million people have found these two minutes life-changing. In the video, you will experience a healthy mother-child bond
I have been a counselor for more than fifty years, but I’ve only been a trauma-informed counselor since I learned I had four ACEs. Let me explain. ACEs stand for “adverse childhood experiences.” The ACE studies began as a collaboration between the CDC and Kaiser hospital in 1998 and more than seventy research papers have
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