Care, as I’ve come to see it, is about sitting beside someone when the pain is too loud for words and not leaving.

We need to stop expecting pills to do the work that only truth, connection, and expression can do. Relief is not the same as recovery.

The conventional Western classification systems of health conditions are based on flawed science shaped by reductionist, hierarchical, and profit-driven ideologies. THEN wants to create a new paradigm built upon principles drawn from systems science, the life course perspective, developmental neurobiology, and other evidence-informed studies.