Seeing with the Heart: Why “Colorblindness” Isn’t Healing
By: Mary Coughlin Published on: 06/10/2025A trauma-informed, Caring Science reflection on why “colorblindness” erases identity—and how real healing begins when we choose to truly see one another.
Gestation Beyond the Womb: Nurturing the World That Is Becoming
By: Mary Coughlin Published on: 29/09/2025This 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.
No Bad Parts: Remembering Wholeness from the Self to the World
By: Mary Coughlin Published on: 29/09/2025Drawing 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.
Facing the Roots: Reflections on Violence, Accountability, and Our Shared Responsibility
By: Mary Coughlin Published on: 14/09/2025The taking of a human life is always tragic. A trauma-informed reflection on America’s legacy of violence, our complicity, and the responsibility of accountability in healing.
