Cathy Tompkins

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

How do we prepare a young human to enter the adult world ready to participate? Let’s take a few minutes to look a little closer at our parental roles with an eye to which ones work toward this goal and which work against it. Those that are critical for children under 7 must yield to... Read More