My friend “Emily” – a friend from university days – was visiting this past weekend. It was way past midnight. We had been talking for hours. And we were on our second or third glass of wine. She asked what I was up to these days. When I mentioned that I was writing this series […]
My observations about trauma and abuse are not pure projection on my part. They are not just thoughts inspired by my clients’ stories. I experienced numerous traumas in my younger years . . . from alcohol-infused childhood violence, to being threatened at knife point (by my father-in-law, no less; now there’s another story . . […]
I’ve been wondering lately about our human tendency to readily give away our power. I’m thinking that, as with most everything, it has its roots in childhood. We’re born powerful, right? When we cry, good parents come running. They feed us, burp us, amuse us, change our diaper and take care of our every need. […]
The age of #MeToo has broken open the discussion of sexual assaults on women by powerful men. Men such as movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, television icon Bill Cosby and now (say it isn’t so!) the esteemed tenor, Placido Domingo. But my focus in this series is something more heinous. Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking ring […]
I was talking to a friend the other day about the impact of sexual abuse on the lives of young girls. And, in particular, those who got caught up in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking schemes. And about the fact that sexual exploitation went virtually unmentioned for decades until social media gave birth to the #MeToo movement. […]
Mia Doucet