Human Trafficking and Kim’s Story of Healing
Human Trafficking By Kim Kubal for Holy Name College in Oakland. Human Trafficking Why do we call ourselves mankind, when there ...
Your Strength to Heal Spring 2015 Newsletter
Our first quarterly newsletter shares Your Strength to Heal news updates as well as educational content for the professional community, survivors ...
Quarterly Newsletter
Our quarterly newsletter shares Your Strength to Heal news updates as well as educational content for the professional community, survivors and ...
Spirit possession or?
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) once known as Multiple Personality Disorder is a "¹severe form of dissociation, a mental process which ...
Spirit Possession and Dissociative Identity Disorder
Opening the Doors to the Self - Spirit Involvement As we have seen there are many paths to self-knowledge. Understanding ...
Healing from Trauma and Ritual Abuse by Kim Kubal
This is my story of healing from trauma and ritual abuse. It has taken me many, many years of therapy, somatic ...
PTSD Symptoms & Secondary Traumatizations
When a person experiences any type of trauma, particularly heavy trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder may develop, along with dissociation, ...
Causes of Trauma
This article is very well written by Dr. Rochelle Suri from Your Strength to Heal's website on trauma. Dr. Suri ...
Treatment Options for Trauma Healing
There are many different treatment options for healing from trauma, including therapy, somatic work, hypnotherapy, group work, anger work, however ...
Trauma, Spirituality and Post-traumatic Growth
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks ...
Post Traumatic Transformation PTT
by Staci Sprout, LICSW, CSAT My journey, both as a survivor of extreme abuse and betrayal and also as an ...
New YSTH board member
I would like to introduce our new board member, Lisa. who is a psychotherapist and yoga instructor with a passion for ...
Child Abuse, Trauma and Hope: A call to action for individuals, families and communities across the world.
Children Are People Everyday children are born around the world, bringing hope, life and possibility into families, communities and our ...
Child Abuse, Trauma and Hope
A call to action for individuals, families and communities across the world. Children Are People Every day children are born ...
Human Trafficking is a Global Concern
While many people may not fully realize it, slavery still exists today in the form of human trafficking. Human traffickers ...
You need never be alone again!
Being a survivor of trauma, abuse, addiction or PTSD can be very lonely for survivors! Please know that you are not ...
Your Strength to Heal (YSTH) board meeting
We had our bi-monthly board meeting Thursday. We will be sending out a new quarterly newsletter shortly, as well as ...
Polly Brown, PhD -welcome back to YSTH board
Welcome back to Polly Brown to the Board of YSTH. Polly not only adds her expertise as a psychologist, but ...
A Daughter’s Experience
Sarah’s Story (Polly Brown) August, 2014 I don’t really know why I’ve struggled with mental illness and substance abuse much ...
Clients as opposed to Consumers
Having worked in the mental health field for many years, I am offended by the term consumer as opposed to client ...
A Parent’s Experience
A Parent's Experience Rev Sally Brown, MS, MDiv, BCC When our middle daughter, Sarah, was six years old, our family ...
Press Release
For Immediate Release Your Strength to Heal Has Reached the GuideStar Exchange Gold Participation Level as a Demonstration of Its Commitment to ...
Trauma and the Resilience
We've posted a new article on trauma and resilience by Dr. Rochelle Suri who is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist ...
Compassion Fatigue
The Social Psychology of Compassion "...Compassion is an essential element in effective direct social work practice. In order to help ...