When I was four years old, my sisters organized a little birthday party for me. Struggling in extreme poverty as an immigrant single mother, my mother rarely celebrated any of her children’s birthdays. So it was significant that they pulled
The Silver Lining and the System (on Post Traumatic Growth)
Around age 10, I started to learn to use the concept of the ‘silver lining’ to manage my grief/loss and helplessness. At this age, I had already moved around 12 times with different caregivers and I was generally depressed. It
All Good Things are Possible
This night felt like a movie. We were at City Hall for a City council meeting where our neighborhood showed up in full force, wearing red shirts, to protest rezoning for a high density complex that would bring more traffic
The God All Around Us
A guiding premise of my work is that we do not need to look to others for happiness and contentment. We may need guidance to help us come back to center and the richness within, but the truth about what