This book is about how trauma affects the body – and how it can be healed. “The number of people treated for depression has tripled over the past two decades, and one in ten Americans now take antidepressants”*. Trauma is an unbearable experience that happened in the past, that is relived constantly in the present,ContinueContinue reading “The Body Keeps The Score – Bessel van der Kolk”
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JDS Insights: May 2012
It’s in your head… For a teacher May is a month brought sharply into focus because of those little things called exams. The particularly depressing weather through the month didn’t really help matters – in my mind it was supposed to be warmer, sunnier and feeling like the end of the year was approaching. InsteadContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: May 2012”
JDS Insights: March 2012
Hard Sell This post is not *trying* to sell you anything. But I do acknowledge the self-indulgent nature of blogging and my own self-interest. So sometimes I will sell something: a book, an idea, a particular paradigm – whatever. But make no mistake – I am selling it. There are openings for action on myContinueContinue reading “JDS Insights: March 2012”
Step Down
I keep hearing this word integrity passed about everywhere. I think people don’t know what it means. It’s all in my face right now because I’m not perfect. It’s more of the same I’ve had on my blog: who I’ve let down, what’s happened now, the frustration of it all, taking it personally and allContinueContinue reading “Step Down”
James D'Souza 