My partner and I have had a joke for the past year about "wanting to watch that Star Wars show with the cute little Yoda." We didn't know the plot or theme of the show...we didn't even know the name of the show. We'd seen "the little Yoda" character in memes online and hoped that he'd be featured in some amount in the show. A few months ago we got a step closer when a friend gave us her Disney+ login details. We opted to watch the Pixar film Inside Out , about childhood emotional health and...

Thursday, July 29 from 5:00 – 6:00pm (Arizona Time) Forward-Facing® Face-to-Face: Optimizing Our Relationships (and Healing Our Attachment Trauma) This free short intensive webinar will give you the insight and tools to begin to gain traction in becoming the person you choose to be in all the relationships in your life. The more you are able to achieve and sustain intentional behavior in these relationships, the more you are diminishing the power that past trauma and painful experiences have...

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Thank you to all who joined our incredible CTIPP CAN call on Wednesday. We are grateful for all who participated, but want to especially thank Jen Curt for the overview of the STRONG Support for Children Act, and Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz and Sanghoon Yoo for their wonderful presentations about their work. You can find the recording from the July CTIPP CAN call here . There were so many valuable resources shared. Attached to this email are both powerpoints from Rebecca and Sanghoon, and they...

I was thinking about the most important questions I have asked myself in this child abuse healing journey, and I thought it might be beneficial to share those with you because when I started asking myself these questions, I felt a massive shift. I believe that one of the hardest things (this was my experience) in healing is to reflect on what is happening in our lives at this moment. Healing trauma is so much about clarity and intention. I think about this - if we can figure out how we got...

If doing homework with a child usually ends with quarrels and a bad mood, and if you subsequently have difficulties and inconveniences because of this, you should read this article and be ready to take action to make sure that you will avoid the same situation in the future. It is quite easy to start with the steps below first and observe how it evolves: 1. Find out the Reason If the child does not like doing homework in any way, he comes up with various excuses not to start studying, be...

Legislation and funding to address the SDoH is on the move, much targeting programs and reimbursement for populations exposed to trauma.