Frank Sterle Jr.

Jul 25, 2024 | petrolialambtonindependent.ca | Frank Sterle Jr.

Cathy Dobson/For The IndependentVolunteers with Caregivers of Petrolia Ferals are being deployed this week to distribute nearly three tonnes of donated pet food across the region. For Petrolia’s Julie Medeiros, the largest donation of food in the group’s history is a godsend and she’s happy to share it. It’s enough to feed a huge population of feral cats daily until November.

Apr 23, 2024 | pacesconnection.com | Frank Sterle Jr.

I’d really like to find statistics on the occurrence of the [dysfunctional] parenting that results in the debilitating "core shame" condition, itself largely consisting of lifelong self-loathing. For example, postpartum depression can result in the exclusion of shared/joyful interaction with an infant, an omission that typically has serious emotional/psychological consequences for that infant during life. In his informative book SHAME: Free Yourself, Find Joy and Build True Self-Esteem [pgs.

Apr 21, 2024 | pacesconnection.com | Frank Sterle Jr.

IF survived, early-life child abuse left unchecked typically causes the brain to improperly develop. It can readily be the starting point of a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammatory stress hormones and chemicals, even in otherwise non-stressful daily routines.

Apr 2, 2024 | pacesconnection.com | Frank Sterle Jr.

In the book Childhood Disrupted the author writes that even “well-meaning and loving parents can unintentionally do harm to a child if they are not well informed about human development” (pg.24). Thus, failing at parenthood can occur as soon as the decision is made to conceive and carry a baby to term. By this I don’t mean they necessarily are or will be ‘bad’ parents.

Mar 31, 2024 | pacesconnection.com | Frank Sterle Jr.

Parents outliving their children — let alone their very young children — is my greatest problem with human existence. It's simply wrong; so much so that it doesn't even have a name for it. A child is orphaned when its parents die. A woman is widowed when her husband passes away; likewise, a man is a widower. But no name for the most unnatural order of things — parents outliving their children. It actually turns my stomach just imagining what this very worst of parental experience might feel like.