August 2022

This free webinar training by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want to know why technology addiction has exploded with both children and parents since the COVID Pandemic and why it causes family trauma. This problem is further exacerbated by what is called “nature deficit disorder”. Family trauma solutions are offered to end or prevent technology addiction. DATE: Wednesday, September 14 TIME: 12 - 1 pm EST COST: Free with REGISTRATION HERE Join Dr. Scott Sells to learn: The top four lies...

Multi-level Public Health Resilience Building Intervention Building Maternal Resilience Through Mindfulness Mobile App Section 1: Background and Epidemiology of the Critical Public Health Issue of Perinatal Mental Health Section 2:Priority population and rationale for geography Section 3: Marketing/Theme Products and Recruitment – Intervention Poster & Radio Ad Section 4: CDC Social Ecological Levels Postpartum depression is a critical public health issue that has been intensified in the...

An adverse childhood experience (ACE) is an event that causes toxic stress between the ages of 0 and 17. They're incredibly common, considering many circumstances can cause a child toxic stress. ACEs can stem from the abuse of any kind, family financial struggles, family members’ substance use, and many other issues. A single child can even experience multiple ACEs before becoming an adult. ACEs can rock a child’s foundation, disrupting their physical, mental, and emotional development. But...

By National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Photo: Unsplash, August 2022 Communities across the United States are subject to ever-increasing human suffering and financial impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather events and other natural hazards amplified in frequency and intensity by climate change. While media coverage sometimes paints these disasters as affecting rich and poor alike and suggests that natural disasters do not discriminate, the reality is that they...

By Kira M. Newman, Image: Greater Good Science Center, Greater Good Magazine, August 2022 Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you get creative and connect with your body. To open the clickable calendar, click on the image below. (Please note: If you are having trouble clicking on calendar links with the Chrome browser, try these tips to fix the issue or try a different browser.) [ Please click here to view the post .]

By Oliver Milman, Photo: Davidovich Mikhail/Alamy, The Guardian, August 1, 2022 The climate crisis risks pushing many Americans into entirely new climatic realities, with a new analysis finding there are 16 US cities at risk of having summer temperatures on a par with locations in the Middle East by the end of the century. Heatwaves have roiled huge swaths of the US this summer, placing nearly a third of the population under some sort of heat advisory and driving temperatures to as high as...

By Jennifer A. Kingson, Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios, Axios, July 28, 2022 A landmark California law requiring high schools to start at 8:30am or later is jump-starting similar efforts nationwide after years of intense debate over schools' starting bells. Why it matters: Most teens don't get enough sleep — yet school start times are a hot-button political issue that divide communities, pitting teachers, parents, bus drivers, and administrators against one another. Pediatricians say...

When you search for "childhood innocence", you get a lot of images of children with animals, children staring wide eyed, children in nature. A personal favorite I ran across was this one as I couldn't help but see myself in it :) I touched on this theme a bit in a recent Year of Self-Care video (you can watch it here if you missed it), and I recently had a conversation with Lisa Smith on the topic as well. Something I love that Lisa says in the opening of her book is: "Knowledge,...

Join this webinar (or view the recording) to learn how PACEs Coalitions can benefit from this unprecedented funding going to Public Health departments.

By Sam Levin, Photo: Gaelen Morse/Reuters, The Guardian, July 28, 2022 Nearly one third of people killed by US police since 2015 were running away, driving off or attempting to flee when the officer fatally shot or used lethal force against them, data reveals. In the past seven years, police in America have killed more than 2,500 people who were fleeing, and those numbers have slightly increased in recent years, amounting to an average of roughly one killing a day of someone running or...

By Jed Diamond, The Good Men Project, July 30, 2022 In parts 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 , I described the problem of depression, the extent of the problem, why our current approach is misguided and ultimately ineffective, why focusing on men can help women and children, and the foundations of a new approach for healing. Here I want to describe the program that I use and why this approach can not only heal individuals, families, and communities, but also heal our troubled relationship with the planet...

By Jill Suttie, Greater Good Magazine, July 27, 2022 Expressing gratitude nurtures our relationships , helping us to feel closer to our friends and romantic partners . Some research suggests that grateful people seem to cope better with stress and enjoy superior physical health , perhaps because of those stronger social relationships. What about experiencing gratitude with people we don’t know so well—like, those we work with? Could showing appreciation towards them affect our stress levels...