Emotional Holding Centers

Pain, trauma, and grief get sticky.

Unless you are a police officer in the throes of communication on a two-way radio, or it is January, we are in Manitoba, and I’ve asked you what the temperature is at 5:00 am, or it is the happy result of an annual mammogram, I have had it with the word “negative.” As in, “Be positive! Stop being so negative.” Recently, after about ten minutes into a co…