Cathy Tompkins

As I write this, yesterday was Thanksgiving and 2025 is coming to a close so I’m pretty wrapped up in wrapping up a mixed bag of a year. I think a lot about the effects of our current digital world on our children. Before laptops and cell phones, there were radios and televisions. Watching the... Read More

Some of you live with young adults facing a workplace unlike anything you have experienced. I remember when an oil company where I worked embarked upon the process of converting from punch card data entry to dumb terminal user data entry. I was their selected trainer (much to my surprise). I trained about 200 people... Read More

I want to discuss boundaries today from two different perspectives: boundaries or the lack thereof often observed in children with chronic trauma histories and boundaries for you as caretaker. This won’t be easy. It won’t be easy for me and it won’t be easy for you. Promise. Boundaries serve us and protect us. They organize... Read More