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A Ever Changing World - The Year of the Woman

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I’d like to begin by saying how amazing it is to be alive to see the progress of years of women pushing the cart uphill in stiletto heels, with a child on one hip and holding the hand of another, trying to raise a family in a society where women are invisible except in the bedroom or kitchen. We have a woman leader today, tossing the heels aside, and lacing up her tennis shoes in order to keep this country moving forward.  I attended the live production of “Do No Harm” a 3 years ago with a dear friend in Dallas, Texas. It was performed by the Soul Rep Theater Company, the link is a different production.    I thought I knew history, but I was not taught the truth in school. In the 1960s, our leaders, while pushing for civil rights and encouraging openness, withheld many stories by teaching only “history”—a narrative centered on men, for men. What I learned, women of color were tortured in the name of medical advancement, a reality obscured from our education.   In the past years I have
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The Impact of Untreated Childhood Sexual Abuse: Consequences in Adulthood

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Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a traumatic experience that leaves lasting effects on a survivor’s mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. When CSA is untreated or unacknowledged, the child’s developmental trajectory can be profoundly altered, leading to a cascade of difficult and often self-destructive coping mechanisms. Survivors often grapple with dissociation, self-harm, eating disorders, compulsive lying, and impaired trust and love. These outcomes, intertwined with the survivor’s developmental stage during the abuse, underscore the critical importance of early intervention and therapeutic support. Childhood Perception and Processing of Trauma Children process their environment differently from adults. Their cognitive and emotional frameworks are not fully developed, which means they often lack the ability to make sense of experiences—especially traumatic ones. Children may not even fully understand what has happened to them, nor can they easily articulate their feeli
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