October 2022

If you’re familiar with the trauma-informed space, you know that we often talk about the experience of feeling seen, heard, and valued. We talk about creating space at the table for everyone, practicing vulnerability to strengthen relationships, and holding ourselves accountable when we make mistakes. These are all great topics to discuss, but it can prove challenging to distill these larger ideas into practice. But, when we talk about apologizing, we wrap all of these complex concepts up...

Hi folks, Please visit my You Tube Channel. I am a musician, writer and an advocate addressing the impact of trauma, abuse and mental health challenges & injuries. I believe there is Hope, Healing & Help for all of us who have been affected. My aim is to share resources and lessons I have learned of how trauma, abuse and the challenges of mental health have consequences for not only us as individuals but our families, friends, colleagues and society. I am not a doctor or a therapist...

Originally filmed to be included in our Trauma Talks program, this conversation includes a discussion about resilience and solitary confinement. It is our goal that we break the cycle of violence that exists in our prisons, our communities and our families. Our Returning Citizen Roundtable Part 2 features Jason Bryant, Eldra Jackson III and Robert Mosqueda.

Originally filmed to be included in our Trauma Talks program, this conversation dives into the ACE Quiz as well as a discussion about the prevalence of childhood trauma in the trauma to prison pipeline. This conversation is included in Episode 2 of our series which is being implemented in several prisons and communities in the United States. It is our goal that we break the cycle of violence that exists in our prisons, our communities and our families.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading "DAMAGED: Childhood Trauma, Adult Illness, and the Need for a Health Care Revolution," (UTP, University of Toronto Press, 2021) a new book by two traditional academic psychiatrists from Canada, Dr. Robert Maunder and Jonathan Hunter. I found the book to be a good read on many levels: It has a clear introduction to ACEs, child maltreatment, child abuse trauma and its lifelong impact and what trauma informed care is. It is a relaxed insight into good, dedicated,...

Read more HERE. Farm Sanctuary recognizes Indigenous Peoples’ Day — a day honoring the first inhabitants and stewards of the land now known as the United States; their histories and cultures; and their ongoing fight for sovereignty, recognition, and the return of their ancestral homelands taken through broken treaties and acts of violence and genocide. Indigenous-led communities, organizations, and movements are consistently taking action to defend Indigenous rights while countering climate...

Now more than ever is the time for connection, kindness, and action. We are all in this together and together #WeHealUS ! #menatlhealth #mentalhealthawareness #bekind #connectedworld #changetheworld Film Directed by Laurent Witz (director & producer of Mr Hublot Short movie) #WeHealUS 1h • 1 hour ago If we want to change the world we have to change how it works!

City Voices Interview with Jessica Nathanson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwYHlsNGG1g https://www.thegloriousbothand.com/ I hope I can help others by sharing how I freed myself from a de-humanizing, non-relational non-dual paradigm and offering an alternative to liberation through self-negation. I hope to experience "divine immanence" together, when the spiritual is the material and vice versa, and holiness radiates from everything nihilistic paths degrade. Something extraordinary happens...

Caroline Hickman will discuss developing a climate & bio-diversity crisis lens through which therapy can respond to these emerging concerns as well as how dreams and the imaginal are increasingly revealing what is under the surface of people’s climate distress.

Music can be medicine. The award winning song "Lift You Up" is meant to be heard and shared. It's also raising funds for Backline, the not-for-profit organization that offers mental health services and resources for musicians and their families. I am a child psychiatrist, poet, and artist. I was inspired to write the poem, "Lift You Up," upon hearing of the suicide death of beloved country music singer Naomi Judd, so I thought it only right that the song it became also be used on behalf of...

By Jason Wu, Illustration: Celia Jacobs/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, October 6, 2022 Researchers have found that pandemic experiences of racial discrimination were associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression . This was certainly true for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the past few years, who endured bigotry and racist attacks after President Donald Trump labeled the coronavirus the “Chinese virus.” As an Asian therapist, I witnessed firsthand the effect...

By Julian Agyeman, Photo: The Guardian, The Guardian, October 6, 2022 “Equity is not an issue for us. We’re here to save the world.” From 1986 to 1990, I worked in an inner London borough as an environmental policy adviser. I worked on raising awareness of local environmental issues, paying special attention to those affecting the borough’s lower-income residents. There were very few jobs such as this in local government, and I was the only Black person employed in one. Unlike the US, in...