The Quick-Start Guide to Healing Trauma and Psychological Wounds

Neil StraussBooks, Neil, Public, The Truth

healing trauma

A  Framework For Transformation Over the course of writing The Truth, I came to develop a very specific take on healing trauma, specifically developmental trauma, as I slowly but surely reduced my own. As an overall framework for psychological healing, think of the childhood pain and shame we store—and the dysfunctional behaviors and thoughts created by them—as cancerous tumors attached to the heart … Read More

Thank You

Neil StraussNeil, Public

After much help and discussion, I’ve been able to come up with a title for my next book…

In Memory of James Gandolfini

Neil StraussNeil, Public

I think a lot of people didn’t know the real “Jim Gandolfini.” And in the few times I met with him, I got to know a man who was gruff and curmudgeonly on the exterior, but on the inside had one of the biggest hearts, sharpest minds, and most tender souls of anyone I’d ever met.

In Memory of John Williamson: A Sexual Freedom Fighter

Neil StraussNeil, Public

An overview of the fascinating life of John Williamson, a leader of the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s. “He liked the idea of being a messiah of sex. He was bringing a message of cooperation, pleasure, equality, and freedom.”