by Jule Kucera | Jul 6, 2025 | Blog
Every morning I listened to the next lesson from Dan Roberts, taking extensive notes. Nuggets from Lesson 2 Babies have five core development needs: Love and a secure attachment. Safety and protection. Being valued as a unique human being. (“I don’t love you...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 29, 2025 | Blog
Because I was feeling unsettled from exploring family trauma, and because my therapist is of the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy branch of psychology, and because I wanted to know more about Internal Family Systems therapy, I went there next. Time to focus inward, not...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 22, 2025 | Blog
As I held my imaginary conversations with these ancestors—Emilie and Emil and Joseph—I got the same sense from each of them. Isolation. They shifted from being story fragments to wounded people, from yellowed photographs to whatever is the color of loneliness. Because...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 15, 2025 | Blog
When I think of Emilie Folda, I think of her tombstone. The only photo I saw of her is not even of her. My grandmother, a child, looks so small next to the massive stone. How sad she looks in her best clothes and immense incongruous hat, dwarfed by the towering...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 8, 2025 | Blog
No one ever burned me with cigarette butts or locked me in a closet for hours or days. I was fed and clothed. Whenever a therapist or some other expert said “trauma,” I passed it off. “Trauma” didn’t apply to me. —Not so fast— Three things happened, and they all sort...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 1, 2025 | Blog
Thank you for your kindness, for your care with my story, or whatever it is I’m doing here. I couldn’t tell it if I didn’t feel safe in your eyes. I used to think of myself as typical. “This is how I am. This is how people are.” But maybe not. Maybe not so much. Maybe...
