FALC

  • Awareness of Your Unconsciousness

    "I don't address Ellen as a victim or "survivor" but as a subject. She is the subject of her own unconsciousness, and, as a subject, she knows where to lead me, and she can become responsible for the havoc and… Continue reading

  • Care to Know.

    I finished Annie G. Roger's Book, "The Unsayable" and I found it had tons of information packed into it in a wildly compact messy way…not unlike how abuse feels in the body.  How she is trying to show clearly that… Continue reading

  • Language of Abuse.

    I am reading "The Unsayable" by Annie G. Rogers.  It is her view of how abused children live their lives after the trauma, when it goes unnoticed, unheard and unaddressed, how we live our lives in code, repeating the abuse… Continue reading

  • Talking Crazy!

    I watched the movie, "The Celebration" twice…although once through would have been enough… it is brilliant in depicting the dynamics of how covering up abuse is impossible; only the eye of denial sees it as gone.  For in reality you… Continue reading

  • Files you Mislabeled.

    "In any treatment situation, it is the therapist who is responsible for holding two stories, or two plays, together. The work of sustaining a therapeutic relationship demands a two-sided or perspective in order to understand both stories. And the deepening… Continue reading

  • Wearing the Label “Therapist”.

    I just finished Annie G Rogers book "A Shining Affliction – A story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy"…it is brilliant in the understanding of how the past arrives in the present, until the past is corrected, and it shows… Continue reading

  • Without their Approval

    Sometimes you don't know what you miss until you get that which you are missing.  I didn't know that it mattered if my mother approved of my actions, when in fact I was blatantly out here doing the opposite of… Continue reading

  • Bond of Our Whole Truth.

    "Trauma into Truth – Gutsy Healing and Why It's Worth It" By Rythea Lee This book is small but packed full of affirmations for my journey…and she sees what I see, feels what I have felt…makes me feel normal through her sharing… Continue reading

  • Wreckage We Called Family.

    Rythea Lee's book, "Trauma into Truth – Gutsy Healing and Why It's Worth It." She has words and her Art…she answers questions that she was asked most often…it is an artful book. Here is one section that popped out to… Continue reading

  • Result of Hostility.

    The chance encounter with my mother, was a snapshot of my relationship with her, the fleeting casual wave as she drove on…into her destination where she wasn't challenged, but rather accepted without question from the little girls. Driving by the… Continue reading