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Spring in my garden is a riot of color. I caught the above pic of my poppies just past their peak after deciding to replace them and wanting to document the process. Because uprooting a cheery, bright colored plant that makes me happy in order to take the chance that something else might do an even better job can feel, as a friend of mine once quipped, "fraught with peril." And that's what it can feel like when we are in the process of healing. When, instead of believing that this is the...

Access 45+ Online Talks plus a Series of LIVE Events to Explore How to Address Collective Trauma in Our World Today Dr. Christina Bethell is speaking today. The presentation is free. Just register here to watch: https://collectivetraumasummit.com/?affiliate=cbcts Join over 100,000+ souls for an all NEW online event with expert presentations, talks, poetry readings, movement sessions, guided meditations, and panel discussions where we will delve into the theme of Collective Healing in Action.

Cowart Trauma Informed Partnership is pleased to announce an upcoming course for educators. This is 5-week, 45-hour course goes well beyond an introductory understanding, and will equip you with tools you can use in your classroom right away.

In Case You Missed It: "The Science of ACEs and Toxic Stress, (Part 3)" September 22 Webinar Now Available WATCH NOW at ACEsAware.org A recording and materials are now available for the second in a series of webinars exploring the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress, presented by Rachel Gilgoff, Clinical and Science Senior Advisor, Aurrera Health Group. Clinicians seeking CME/CE and MOC credits* must complete a separate activity evaluation in order to request...

NEW EPISODE OF THE 180 PODCAST Listen: Jeff Duncan-Andrade: The Purpose of Education Should Be Youth Wellness "When you find the tenacity and the will to show up to school in a society that teaches you to hate yourself for the color of your skin and the texture of your hair, the language that your parents speak, the neighborhood that you come from, and you still show up? How do we not have institutions that see that as the most important ingredient for intellectual development?" — Jeff...

Just a reminder to all educators out there (PreK-- 12): The second cohort of the Virtual Teachers Lounge is launching this Saturday, Sept. 25th from noon -- 2:00 p.m. est. Join us for across the globe. Share, vent, learn now strategies, connect. It is an opportunity to garner help to navigate forward with 4 trained facilitators. FREE! Sign up at website below. New teachers welcomed. Experienced teachers welcomed. Counselors welcomed. Sign up at www.virtualteacherslounge2021.com. And, we are...

By Li Cohen, CBS News, September 21, 2021 For years, LGBTQ military members were only allowed to serve so long as nobody openly acknowledged their sexual orientation or gender identity. On Monday, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that those service members who received other than honorable discharges for their sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status are eligible for full benefits. The announcement was made on the 10th anniversary of the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't...

By Liza Gross, Inside Climate News, September 21, 2021 On a mild December evening in 2017, Southern California’s powerful Santa Ana winds fueled a massive wildfire after smashing power lines together and carrying molten bits of metal onto the dry ground. The Thomas Fire, California’s largest at the time, ultimately torched 440 square miles and cost Ventura and Santa Barbara counties’ $3.5 billion agricultural industry nearly $200 million in damaged crops and buildings. Researchers are still...

By Eric Lutz and Erin McCormick, The Guardian, September 21, 2021 Bobbie Clay first realized something was wrong a few years ago. The water at her Benton Harbor, Michigan , home had started coming out of the tap looking “bubbly and whitish”. When she filled a glass with it, she could see matter floating around inside. “I became very concerned,” she recalled in a recent interview. She wasn’t alone. For years, residents of this small, struggling city in south-west Michigan had been having...

By Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, September 20, 2021 I t’s Climate Week in New York City, an event that, as it has every autumn since 2009, features a series of speeches, awards, presentations, and protests that coincide roughly with the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. I’m glad that it’s happening, but, as with the endless annual global climate negotiations (this year’s will be in November, in Glasgow), there’s a danger that we’ll come to think of the climate crisis as a...

In many cases, sugar addiction (just like other forms of addiction) can be linked to ACEs. When adverse childhood experiences go unresolved, sugar is easily accessible and can provide a temporary pressure relief valve from toxic stress. Sometimes, this way of coping is unconscious because the sugar-eating habits are reinforced by the brain’s altered hardwiring that craves that next dopamine hit. Then, there's the weight gain...

By Kavita Vinekar, The New England Journal of Medicine, September 23, 2021 "We see such advanced pathology here,” our guide boasted as she glided through the resident Ob/Gyn clinic. It was 2013, and I was among a nervous gaggle of fourth-year medical students, following the resident on a whirlwind residency interview tour. “We see all the Medicaid and uninsured patients, so it’s, like, really great learning,” she continued. I looked at her in awe, with excitement and near disbelief that I,...