Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: We associate it with something that happens in careers that can be dangerous like with soldiers, or police. But it really can happen to any of us who are hit with a major traumatic event.   But beyond that initial hit, many don’t realize how the effects of the trauma are multiplied by fear and prejudice against people with PTSD. Here, the enemy is not...

The biggest influx of slaves into the United States did not happen in the 1800’s. It is happening now. And what are we doing about it? Tragically, our nation is supporting it: passively and actively. Slavery is a scourge in the history of our country. While some are talking about reparations, tearing down statues and renaming buildings, we need to look in a mirror and admit the same is...

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In the coming days it is expected that the “Manifesto” written by the shooter at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee will be released. Six people including three children and three adults were killed. The shooter was killed by police.  The media is hungry for any writings by the killer. The public wants to know what goes through the mind of a person who kills the...

We need a new word in our lexicon: “Prehearse”. You will not find it in the Cambridge, Oxford or Webster’s dictionaries. So, let’s start it now. It means to mentally prepare for a new experience by clearing our head of preconceived notions allowing us to encounter them openly, purely and fully. While rehearse practices what we know, prehearse prepares us for what we...

Michigan State University. Parkland. Uvalde. Charlotte. More places that have joined the list of unprovoked mass shootings. More everyday. Again, we ask “why?” More important is the question: “when?” When are we going to act on the doable to protect workplace, school and community safety? The anguished cries of families beg for changes. I’ve been pushing for...

It is difficult to think about being thankful in a divisive and vicious world. A few months ago we experienced a tsunami where $16.7 billion was spent on campaign ads in the 2022 US elections. Over half of that was negative messages meant to increase anger, paranoia, suspicions. Goal achieved. The after effects will last for months, maybe years. They are part of the American political psyche....

This is no place to have to spend the Christmas holidays. Especially if you are only four years old. In a Children's Hospital. Quiet and away from friends. Dealing with pain. Undergoing her first of several rounds of chemotherapy. The treatment will last 18 months. Heartbreaking to see her go through all of this. The disease is so big, and she is so small. But when we see all of this through...

Dr. Tim Murphy Discusses the Stuff that Trauma Is Made of• Core principles of healing from trauma• How to recognize Post Traumatic Stress Disorder• Where to turn for relief• How to begin your own journey toward healing Listen on Spotify Listen on Rumble

“Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 26:6   Dr. Tim Murphy discusses understanding adolescents: • No parent has ever said, “If I knew then, what I know now, I would have done everything exactly the same way.”• How we can help our children not make the same mistakes we did•...