October 2022

Welcome to virtual Rx Healing Circles! This session serves as an opportunity for building the beloved community and fostering healing through a shared humanity perspective. We invite you to join us in sharing a connective space for people to offer compassion and experience unity. Join us Wednesday, November 16, 2022 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Please register here : bit.ly/RxHealingCircle11-16

During six weeks at the Blackfoot Reservation in the 1930’s, 30-year-old Abraham Maslow did not find support for his theory that social hierarchies are maintained by dominance. Instead, he saw a tribal community where “…levels of cooperation, minimal inequality, restorative justice, full bellies, and high levels of life satisfaction…” were the norm. During my career in Alaska, I watched a transformation of villages from substandard houses with outhouses and honey buckets to places with more...

"Game changing. Strategies that I know will improve my practice & improve the experience that students have at school." “I’m Safe. I Belong. I Matter.” This is the way every child needs to feel in order to learn. How can you, as an adult who works with youth, help them experience emotional safety? Especially when our own nervous systems are overwhelmed. In our online, interactive Reimagining Resilience workshop , we cover the three R’s critical in building positive relationships with...

By Aatish Bhatia, Francesca Paris, and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, October 25, 2022 The first two years of the Biden administration have included huge legislative victories: a major bipartisan infrastructure deal, a technology bill, a veterans’ health bill, a gun safety bill, and a package of new investments in climate and health care. Of course, President Biden didn’t get everything he wanted; no president does. Even with these major bills, he has fallen substantially short of...

By Jessica DuLong, Photo: Maskot/Getty Images, CNN Health, October 24, 2022 Straight away, Nora McInerny noticed core differences in how people responded to the coronavirus pandemic. For some, the deadly virus and its upheaval constituted the “first big thing they’d ever been through.” Meanwhile, McInerny and others whose lives had been shaped by grief, loss or tragedy had long known that “life is fragile and our pace in this modern world is untenable.” McInerny’s first husband, Aaron, died...

By Phoebe Weston, Photo: Emilio Naranjo/EPA, The Guardian, October 24, 2022 Industry groups representing some of the world’s largest companies are “opposed to almost all major biodiversity-relevant policies” and are lobbying to block them, according to a new report. Researchers found that 89% of engagement by leading industry associations in Europe and the US is designed to delay, dilute and block progress on tackling the biodiversity crisis, which scientists say is as serious as the climate...

What's the difference between listening and hearing? We can’t control what we hear. Hearing is second nature. Listening requires focus. Imagine you’re standing in line at a coffee shop while music plays overhead. Everyone in the shop hears the music, but only a few of them might be listening to it. Who are our listeners? Most likely, the patrons in line with nothing else to do except wait will be listening. The busy barista can’t focus on the music, so they aren’t listening. The same is true...

When there is alcohol or substance-abuse in the family, it is often a central theme around which the entire family is organized. Yet for the most part, treatment is just with the individual and does not actively involve the entire family. This free webinar by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want concrete tools to bridge the gap from individual to family trauma treatment for substance-abuse issues. Case examples and handouts will be provided. DATE: Wednesday, November 16 TIME: 12 - 1 pm...

Dare To Share Your Untold Story: Episode 58: Michael Skinner - Trauma Accumulated, Misperception of Illness and Finding his way to be Impactful - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dare-to-share-your-untold-story/id1550712085 or Dare To Share Your Untold Story: Episode 58: Trauma Accumulated, Misperception of Illness and Finding his way to be Impactful - https://daretoshare.libsyn.com/episode-58-trauma-accumulated-misperception-of-illness-amp-finding-his-way-to-be-impactful ‘Dare To Share...

Hello everyone. I'm jabulile Daka, and I run the PACEs Community here is Zambian. I'm honest at my wit's end right now. I've tried everything in my knowledge to make things work for both my organisation and myself, but nothing is working. I recently asked for a divorce from my husband who has been extremely emotionally neglectful, and even abusive. Now I'm supporting my 3 children on my own, but nothing is working!😩 I have no food in the house, and I've just been evicted from my home and I...

One of the most radical implications of the literature on early childhood trauma is that abuse needs to be eliminated from all of our relationships—with our families, teachers, colleagues, and government . When government leaders create a new policy, they can proceed in a way that dis-empowers constituents, or they can proceed in a way that fosters dialogue and shared decision-making. Ironically, the development and implementation of California’s policy to address childhood trauma provides...

The Stockade Paradox says that we must accept the brutal realities of our existence, yet maintaining enduring hope that we will prevail in the end. I have applied the Paradox to my study of ACE's which began in 2008. I was an early advocate for addressing ACEs in Alaska. In 2013 I wrote a resolution for a Representative in Alaska that called for considering ACEs in health and other policies in Alaska. It took years, but the Representative and other allies improved the resolution I submitted...