by Nicolay Kreidler | Jan 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Once again, we are grieving the loss of yet another apparently innocent young Black man who is crying out for mercy and his mother. Even though parts of me think I should force myself to watch the video of the murder, my empath parts can’t stomach it and just...
by Lissa Rankin | Jan 25, 2023 | Healing, IFS, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Justice
Over the course of my life, in my romantic partnerships and friendships and business partnerships, I have sometimes been the more traumatized person, tended to gently by someone less traumatized or further along in recovery and I have sometimes been the less...
by Nicolay Kreidler | Jan 16, 2023 | Mental Health, Social Justice, Spiritual Bypassing, Trust, Uncategorized
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr Day and the kids in California are off school. Today we remember one of our brave and imperfect Civil Rights heroes who had a dream that the ancestors of that generation are still fighting to fulfill. When George Floyd was murdered in...
by Nicolay Kreidler | Jan 14, 2023 | Creativity, Healing, IFS, Medicine, Mental Health, Spirituality, Trust
Why We Need Our Trauma Stories Validated (When Abusers So Often Minimize, Deny & Gaslight) In spite of every pretzeling attempt his child self made to be obedient to abusive fundamentalist parents growing up, my partner Jeff’s family shunned him, making up a...
by Nicolay Kreidler | Jan 12, 2023 | Sexuality, Spirituality, Trust, Uncategorized, Work Life Purpose
Since I’m gearing up to teach the Memoir As Medicine class with Nancy Aronie, I wanted to take a moment to write you all a love story. It’s about my long term friend and now romantic partner, who you all may know from his work as the medical director of...
