Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Trudi Young Taylor

Trumpatized – Canada Is Not The Answer

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Trudi Young Taylor

I have been finding snatches of time in the day to cry since the election. A friend called it being Trumpatized. A great term combining Trump and traumatized, the cause of the trauma and the condition it is triggering. My reaction, disbelief and grief and anger over the election, has to find little crevasses in […]

Boys to Men

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Trudi Young Taylor

“Boys will be boys.” This primitive rationalization is reactivating long stored, sometimes barely remembered wounds in women and men. When I was a teenager, my family didn’t have much money. Mom was a single parent to three expensive kids. As a teenager, I wasn’t very forgiving nor understanding of my mother’s struggles to keep me […]