Victor Frankl once said, “Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” It’s...

When the brush hits the paper the bristles lead the way.  The colors are picked randomly as they come to me.  Today I sit in my cold studio and open the palette of options.  Watching...

The edge of the pool is cold and harsh and we stand in a line watching one of our instructors thrash around in the water as if he was drowning.  I am 11 years old and today I am on the final...

Here I sit in the middle of 1000 people who had consumed the conference learnings for the last three days.  I realize that I am in the middle of the room and escape will be...

Its officially winter this morning and as I sit watching the sun rise a text dings from my neighbor about the power outage.  We are on solar power so we never know about power...

"You are too smart to be the only thing standing in your way."

Welcome to the War Room.  Its a place where the maps showing soldiers in battle are laid out.   In the left...

"When The Going gets tough, the tough get going."

This phrase came about as a motivational technique to entice athletes to overcome the hardship of competition.  It is meant to...

"Love yourself first because that is who you will be spending the rest of your life with."

 I am sitting on my bed with cloths all around me. We are getting ready to head out to...

"No wasted time, we're alive today

Churning up the past, there's no easier way

Time's been between us, a means to an end

God it's good to be here walking together my friend"

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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"I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, than swim back and forth as many times as I need to...

"I am not okay

I'm barely gettin' by

I'm losing track of days

And losin' sleep at night"

Jellyroll

If there ever was a theme song that describes the life of a trauma survivor, this is it. I...