This article first appeared in Rock and Ice No. 267. Years of abuse. Threats. A desperate escape. A false trail of breadcrumbs. A restraining order. A suicide. A life burned to the ground and a woman ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing series about the ...

For 25 years, Mariska Hargitay has played the tough but empathetic Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, helping survivors of sex-related crimes confront their trauma (while solving ...

I used to love it when my dad would take me for rides on his motorcycle. Even in his mid-forties he had the spirit of a man still in his twenties. He was 6’1″, built like a brick house, with light ...

A few years ago, one of my friends introduced me to plant medicine by inviting me to a mushroom ceremony, a spiritual event in a very intimate setting. I attended with the hopes of looking at my past ...

Have you ever experienced depression so heavy that you hoped would go away on its own, but it didn’t? Have you tried to heal from it and felt like nothing was working? That was my story. At the start ...

There are days when I can’t tell where I end and my trauma begins. But what I do know is that my trauma doesn’t define me, and neither does yours. I once thought that PTSD was an emotional response to ...

Content Warning: pregnancy loss/stillbirth. One Saturday morning in 2015, at 37½ weeks of pregnancy, I couldn’t feel my baby move. I waited for a kick or a shift of movement that never came. The ...

My parents had severe life-long psychological struggles and I had a bad childhood—a very nasty nature-nurture combination. My life should have been a disaster. Amazingly, I become an emotionally ...

A millennial woman has opened up about the unique way her own personal childhood trauma has stayed with her through adult life. There are millions of Americans living with childhood trauma of some ...

Years of abuse. Threats. A desperate escape. A false trail of breadcrumbs. A restraining order. A suicide. A life burned to the ground and a woman torn down to almost nothing. I barely survived. Then ...