Sex Trafficking in Bend

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] Source: Christopher Stollar, The Black Lens An article recently published by the Source entitled Sex, Lies & Snapchat talks about sex trafficking in Central Oregon. The article begins with a brief [...]

2019-10-05T16:57:57-08:00June 21st, 2016|Bend Mental Wellness, Quotes|

Be a Man Club

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXyTp6JEroY An interesting video about Dragan, a young man struggling to find himself in a post-war community. He turned his life around through the "Be a Man Club", part of Care [...]

2019-10-05T16:57:57-08:00June 13th, 2016|Bend Mental Wellness|

All Trauma Is Equal

The following is from an essay about Trauma entitled "Childhood, disrupted"  written by: Donna Jackson Nakazawa The adversity a child faces doesn’t have to be severe abuse in order to create deep biophysical changes that can lead to chronic health conditions in adulthood. ‘Our findings showed that the 10 different types of adversity we examined were [...]

2019-10-05T16:57:57-08:00June 10th, 2016|Bend Mental Wellness, Quotes|

Know Thyself

Erich Fromm in his work The Art of Listening (p.45) repeats the ancient Delphic truth to "Know Thyself". Fromm seems to believe that there is some kind of connection between the internal and external world. I am not clear on the extent to which this is true. Nonetheless exploring this truth has made all the difference. How [...]

2019-10-05T16:57:57-08:00May 15th, 2016|Bend Mental Wellness, Quotes|