Dawn Davies is the author of Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces (published by Flatiron Books, 2018), which won the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for General Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her essays and stories have been Pushcart Special Mentions and Best American notables. Her work can be found in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Missouri Review, Poetry Northwest, The Alaska Review, Narrative, Fourth Genre and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing, and helps writers reach their publication goals. She is also a certified trauma recovery coach and works with NPE/MPE population. She lives in Florida. 

Dawn's coaching website is here: www.littlebirdcoaching.com

Her author website: www.dawndaviesbooks.com

Gabor Mate's website is here. A couple of books to check out:  In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts  & The Myth of Normal

Learn about Trauma Informed Care here, here, and I have written about it here 

ACES can be read about here and here

Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273- talk (8255) or dial the three digit code 988.  Also please check out the Nate Chute Foundation to see how we can stop this -- It is suicide prevention month and I mention this because 30 years is far too long to be thinking about how to make it stop.  Missing you every single day, C.S.D.