A trauma-informed, Caring Science reflection on why “colorblindness” erases identity—and how real healing begins when we choose to truly see one another.
This reflection explores how pregnancy offers a powerful metaphor for our collective becoming: a nation gestating society, society gestating culture, and the international community gestating the future of the world. Drawing from Trauma-Informed Developmental Care, it highlights how inequities act as toxins in our collective womb while care, justice, and belonging create conditions for resilience and flourishing.
Drawing from Richard Schwartz’s No Bad Parts and Trauma-Informed Developmental Care, this reflection explores how IFS wisdom applies not only to individuals, but also to families, nations, and our global community—inviting us to resist exile and reclaim our shared humanity.
Reflecting on The Greatest Beer Run Ever and the legacy of Vietnam, Mary Coughlin explores the lasting wounds of lies and disinformation—and calls us to reimagine our future as a species grounded in truth, compassion, and love.