Always hits close to home when you know them or know someone who knows them.
I have so much more compassion and understanding for people as a result of all the autobiographies Ive read/listened to.
Trauma changes us, intergenerational trauma keeps going until someone has the awareness and decides to change it.
Eduction to date has been this is good, this is bad, that person is bad, that person is good. People make mistakes (do bad things), it doesn't make them a bad person.
Drugs, alcohol, crime, violence are all signs of some form of dysregulation. Instead of love and rehabilitation these people get shame and isolation and it exacerbates it.
Another powerful, thought provoking column Sam, well done.
You didn’t feel good because you understand. Hence the saying “Ignorance is bliss.”
Always hits close to home when you know them or know someone who knows them.
I have so much more compassion and understanding for people as a result of all the autobiographies Ive read/listened to.
Trauma changes us, intergenerational trauma keeps going until someone has the awareness and decides to change it.
Eduction to date has been this is good, this is bad, that person is bad, that person is good. People make mistakes (do bad things), it doesn't make them a bad person.
Drugs, alcohol, crime, violence are all signs of some form of dysregulation. Instead of love and rehabilitation these people get shame and isolation and it exacerbates it.