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Chunks of a letter I wrote to Janina Fisher's team.

I somehow am a magnet for trauma survivors, and help them as I can. So I pick up bits of knowledge where I can. I guess I could make them worse, but the more I understand, the less likely that is. And more people say that I've helped than have turned away.

Your book "Healing the Fractured Selves" has helped me a lot. I hope you have a similar book in the works for TIST.

I cannot emphasize this enough: For every person that can afford therapy there are dozens who cannot. As I train myself to be more vulnerable, more open, I keep hitting responses that other people are in similar situations.

In our province, Alberta, therapy is not covered my our provincial health care. But most of our health care is. Net result everyone pays for their own therapy unless covered as a job perk. That only is in place for people who deal with with trauma events regularly -- police, paramedics, firefighters.

I have a friend. She has 3 boys. This concerns the younger two. Matt was 13. Nathan was 11. Matt had a friend, Chris, a few months older. Wendy would often hear the three of them playing loudly in their bedroom. She thought nothing of it. Boys being boys.

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