by justinehardy | May 29, 2017 | Blog
Bouncing – not as babyish as it sounds… …and often a lot more effective than drugs The room was full of adults bouncing, jammed together in a space that was too small, all of them trying hard not to bounce into each other. On that...
by justinehardy | Mar 11, 2017 | Blog
What does resilience mean? When it seems as if there is nothing left in us, when we long for more strength, more inner fight, what is it that we are really asking for? ‘How do I become more resilient?’ asked a young man, his eyes too old for a nineteen...
by justinehardy | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog
Out in the Backcountry—Post Traumatic Stress At the moment I am again in the disconcerting backcountry of PTS. I know this place. The terrain is ugly, but it is also familiar. I can predict where most of the attacks are likely to come from, and what is...
by justinehardy | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog
Autonomy and Control—and our human need for both It’s interesting thinking about autonomy, sitting here now, in Kashmir, the whole valley curfewed, everyone confined, shut in, locked down. And it was another version of interesting when flying out of the...
by justinehardy | May 18, 2016 | Blog
‘Good-bye’ – to anyone who is graduating You’re there, that place that glimmered so far in the future that it was almost impossible to imagine. Do you remember arriving, that freshman moment when you first saw all those seniors? They seemed so...
by justinehardy | May 14, 2016 | Blog
The Power of Negative Thinking…because it’s the result of millions of years of evolution… Take a day, any day. Ten good things might happen. Perhaps these aren’t big deal good things, but they are ten things that create a sense of...
