What can we, as a community of concerned citizens - not just parents, teachers, counsellors and pediatricians - envision, innovate and create so that children are still able to interact, up close, in safe ways?

Just one of nature's many sanctuaries, where C-PTSD survivors (like me or those you know and love) can find beneficial grounding - for healing during these prolonged rumblings of isolation and instability.

Long before I heard of ACEs or the phrase “childhood adversity,” I started to write a book; my first. Now, hot off the press, my memoir isn’t the book I set out to write. But who am I kidding? It’s exactly the book that had to be written. It finally gnawed at me, dared me, to excavate for truth. My book was supposed to be about walking the Camino de Santiago Compostela in 2013. After I’d hiked nearly 1000 kms of trails across Spain, I told my family and friends that I would write a book...