Before surfers ride big waves, they learn to fall. Trauma healing works the same way: recovery begins with building your ...

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of rape and sexual assault. This story is part of our mental health series. Find out more here. When Karestan Koenen was working for the Peace Corps in ...

Regardless of your life experiences, most of us have probably felt stuck in a rut at some point in our lives. It’s a sense of stagnation that seems impossible to break free from, no matter how hard ...

Teresa Cox-Bates was only 11 years old when her father died, an event that dramatically altered her family's circumstances and shaped her childhood experiences. "I really remember us not having enough ...

Most people greet December with excitement. But for years I spent Christmas filled with terror that, fuelled by a little too ...

In the end, the toll was too much for Virginia Giuffre. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse,” her family noted in their mourning statement. The fact that her ...