As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...

Writing our stories can be healing, especially if we've encountered trauma. Writing your own emotional truth is important.

Some of my students have been assaulted. Others have been homeless, jobless or broke, some suffer from depression, anxiety or grief. Some fight addiction, cancer or for custody. Many are in pain and ...

Trauma differs for everyone — it's caused by varying events or experiences one has gone through — and there are instances where it may progress into post-traumatic stress disorder. Licensed mental ...

Your trauma isn't your fault, but healing from it is still your responsibility. If you can't afford therapy, these free ...

Every day—through TikTok, Instagram, and Zoom—the internet forces us to think about how we present ourselves to the world, giving us endless opportunities to construct our identities anew. Little ...

Hours after submitting to my editor my draft of a long, reported magazine feature about my alma mater’s campus rape problem, I woke up screaming from a horrifying dream about being drugged and raped.

“I want to use your work, D,” a good friend who teaches high school English — I’ll call her Vee — told me at a mixer, in front of a couple of artists we hang out with. “But it is triggering. It’s so ...

Over the last year, Maryland psychotherapist Kerry Malawista noticed frontline health care workers struggling with what she called "the ghosts of the COVID deaths they carry." Borrowing the expression ...