July 7, 2026
The Presence Process (Michael Brown)
When we are deeply triggered by an event, someone cuts us off in traffic...
Co-Compassion
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Notes on trauma, attachment, the nervous system and healing — books and frameworks that shape how we work.
June 30, 2026
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy (Stephen W. Porges & Deb Dana)
Safety is not merely a comfort in Compassionate Inquiry™, it is a biological prerequisite.
June 25, 2026
The Drama of the Gifted Child (Alice Miller)
Why do so many successful, highly functional adults carry a secret, pervasive sense of emptiness and depression?
June 23, 2026
Scattered Minds (Gabor Maté)
Introduction The mainstream medical establishment has long treated ADD and ADHD as strictly genetic brain disorders, conditions to be managed with lifetime medication. Gabor Maté’s Scattered Minds turns that assumption on its head. Rooted…
June 18, 2026
Parenting from the Inside Out (Daniel J. Siegel & Mary Hartzell)
Introduction How we make sense of our own childhood is the single strongest predictor of how we will relate to our children, and ultimately, to ourselves. That one insight sits at the heart of Daniel J.…
June 16, 2026
The Myth of Normal (Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté)
Introduction Many clients arrive at their first Compassionate Inquiry™ session carrying heavy labels: depression, anxiety, autoimmune disease, addiction. They believe these diagnoses mean something is inherently wrong with their genetics or their character, and…
June 16, 2026
It Didn’t Start with You (Mark Wolynn)
Introduction Many clients enter Compassionate Inquiry™ feeling profoundly broken, suffering from crippling anxiety, depression, or phobias that seem entirely disconnected from their actual life experiences. No amount of introspection appears to explain it. Mark Wolynn’s It Didn’t Start…
June 12, 2026
The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk)
Introduction For decades, mainstream psychiatry treated trauma as a purely psychological phenomenon, a cognitive “memory” problem that could simply be talked through or medicated away. Bessel van der Kolk’s landmark work overturned that assumption…
May 29, 2026
In an Unspoken Voice (Peter A. Levine)
Introduction We tend to believe that healing begins with understanding: that if we articulate what happened to us clearly enough, the pain will eventually resolve. Peter A. Levine’s In an Unspoken Voice challenges this assumption at its…
May 27, 2026
Hold On to Your Kids (Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Maté)
Introduction Something has quietly shifted in the way children orient themselves in the world. In a modern society that has grown increasingly stressed, fragmented, and emotionally disconnected, children are turning to their peers for…
May 14, 2026
Healing Developmental Trauma (Laurence Heller & Aline LaPierre)
Introduction There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from what happened to us, but from the effort of being someone other than ourselves. Developmental trauma and the chronic absence of…
May 14, 2026
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self (Allan N. Schore)
Introduction Before a child can form a single conscious memory, the architecture of their emotional life is already being built. Allan N. Schore’s landmark work in interpersonal neurobiology shows that the capacity for…