Trauma Bonding is when a person experiences a trauma, wound or hurt or series of the same and bonds with it some way.  Another way of saying it is that the person takes it on as part of their identity and repeats the trauma in some way. Trauma Bonding will always result in a relationship that will guarantee that a trauma will occur in the relationship by virtue of the trauma on the inside of one or both parties in the relationship.

Have you ever wondered why you negatively respond the way you do…why your emotions are so over-sensitive…why your emotions rule over you with such overwhelming power … why your negative emotions go too deep and stay there too long… why you take things so personally… why you struggle with such fear, anger and rejection… why you get so depressed like a dark cloud is hanging over your head or on your shoulders like a cloak of darkness…why you fe

The Law of the Mind is a behavioral law that applies to thoughts and the beliefs, behavior and emotions created by thought. Prolonged thought will eventually lead to beliefs and those beliefs will eventually produce and justify behaviors. All people act on what they believe whether those beliefs are productive or destructive-good or bad. Once they believe something, it is hard to get a person to violate or abandon those beliefs.

Words are sharper than any sword. They have the power to instigate change. They have the power to save lives. Most importantly, however, I have learned that words have the power to cut your heart in half. Words and stories can affect a person in the most painful and beautiful way. Poet Graham Foust explained this best in his poem, After Antonio Porchia, in which he eloquently states, “Only the broken breathe.” Words break you down, dissolving the excess until only the core of the matter remains. A broken person cannot lie. When your walls of defense crumble, you are left with two dramatically different choices.  

By James Harn, Senior, President of Student Council

It would be another cold night. After a house fire, a divorce, and a serious neck injury, Neale Donald Walsch found himself unemployed and spending his nights in a camping tent near Ashland, Oregon. After picking up aluminum cans for money, Walsch was hired as a weekend radio DJ. With his steady income, he purchased a small house. For the first time in a long time things were looking up for Walsch. But the suffering that he went through did not leave him without questions. Late one night Neale angrily wrote on a yellow legal pad, “What does it take to make life work?” Supposedly, God answered him.