trauma

How Can I Make You Feel Safe?

How Can I Make You Feel Safe?

Our job as caregivers, whatever the age of those in our care, is to make them feel safe. Which is why we should ask the same question every day–How can I make you feel safe?–and observe the words and behaviors of our loved ones, so we can create the secure environment they need.

Reasons for Praise in a Difficult Season: Reflections on the Promises Fulfilled by God

Reasons for Praise in a Difficult Season: Reflections on the Promises Fulfilled by God

During the recent Christmas season, as I pondered the state of the world and all of the trauma that I went through in 2020, a message from a messianic rabbi about the Magnificat led me to ask a truly hard question similar to what Mary could have also asked: do I believe the God who carried me through so many difficulties and challenges in the past will carry me through new ones as well?