We Can’t Help People With Trauma If We Can’t Say Trauma

We Can’t Help People With Trauma If We Can’t Say Trauma

Halloween, 2004 was an actual nightmare for our family. After an evening of trick-or-treating along Newtown, Connecticut’s festive Main Street, we got into the car for a short ride home. Though exhausted, we heeded the request of our three children to make one last stop at our neighbor’s spookily decorated house. A fog machine, lit by a candle at its base, greeted trick-or-treaters with a misty haze wafting up toward a colossal flood-lit spider …