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Note: You may receive an unsolicited invite to a class when downloading the article. By Gabor Mate, PESI, May 2, 2020 Have you ever wondered, as I have, how someone with an addiction could go through 21 detox centers and 5 treatment facilities, yet continue to relapse? It wasn’t until I started working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside—one of the most concentrated areas of drug use, mental illness, and poverty in North America—that I realized... The reason these treatments do NOT work is...

By Great Resilience Summit, Heart Mind Institute and Engaged Mindfulness Institute, May 2, 2020 Resilience is no longer a luxury. Making the Individual and Collective Shift to Becoming more Deeply Embodied, Heart-Centered, Resilient and Earth Connected. At this time, resilience is actually critical to our very survival. In this Summit we will explore how to develop and sustain the individual and collective resilience we need to meet our increasingly complex global challenges with wisdom,...

From Prevention Institute, April 30, 2020 Prevention Institute’s community and government partners around the country are on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic—addressing basic needs, exposing inequities, advocating for policies that support the communities that are most vulnerable, and keeping people connected with each other. In collaboration with them, we’ve created a new social media video and podcast that feature stories about what their work looks like on the ground. We hope...

Published by Knox Village Soup, May 4th 2020 Maine Kids Count reports that Maine has a higher than average percentage on nearly all measured youth mental health indicators including high rates of diagnosed anxiety, depression, behavioral and conduct problems, and exposure to two or more adverse childhood experiences. A $10,000 grant awarded by the Maine Community Foundation to Northern Light Acadia Hospital will be used this summer to train and certify two clinicians in Parent Child...

Written by Nina Jacobs, Friday, May 1 2020 - Police officers should be trained in understanding the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on young people in order to tackle an increase in child to parent violence, new research suggests. The study was commissioned by Northumbria Police. A report commissioned by Northumbria Police, Policing Childhood Challenging Violent or Aggressive Behaviour: responding to vulnerable families , makes the recommendation as part of a wider strategy to...

We hope you are participating in and enjoying the first annual #ResilienceWeekVA! Trauma-Informed Community Networks (TICNs) across Virginia are engaging their communities through a variety of resilience-building activities, events, and trainings! Today, we are spotlighting the Alexandria TICN: Resilience Alexandria: Inform Support Elevate (RAISE) , one of the 26 TICNs across Virginia participating in Resilience Week VA, and the many ways they are connecting and collaborating to build...

Recovering from trauma takes hard work, and often survivors wish the recovery process could go faster. A new client recently asked me, “Should I be exercising? Doing yoga? Meditating? What can I be doing physically to help me heal or recover more quickly? What else can I do to get through all of this?” It was a great question, so today, I’m going to address it in case you’ve been wondering too. Trauma impacts everything from how we think to how our body responds to the things around and...

All families have their squabbles and days when one member might not speak to another. However, there is one type of painful situation where the communication between family members stops; this is family estrangement. Often, family estrangement occurs when an adult child is learning to cope with and get rid of harmful people in their lives, but it can happen under other circumstances as well.

Excerpts from a piece by Sumi Kim published in the Ten Percent Happier online newsletter. Click here to read the rest of this piece by S umi Kim published in the Ten Percent Happier online newsletter.

The Pinetree Institute is a Maine non-profit located on the NH border in Eliot. They conduct research and present workshops on ACEs and resilience. A workshop with Dr. Christina Bethell was scheduled for today, but was cancelled because of COVID-19. Dr. Bethell's field of expertise is PCE (Positive Childhood Experiences) and their role in combatting ACEs and promoting resilience throughout the lifetime. Because of the circumstances, Pinetree Institute is offering a 40 minute podcast in which...

These last few months have been strenuous—harder for some than others. While I have hope that loosening restrictions on social distancing and economic restraints will alleviate some of what we have endured together, I hope we don’t pivot too quickly to “happy days are here again.” There are ways we have grown and learned from the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. I have heard some say, “We can’t go back to normal… normal wasn’t working or healthy,” and I’d say I have to agree...

Dear Friends, Please see the link below to my interview last Thursday on Insight with Beth Ruyak. I discuss my book The Gifts of Adversity and my experience of sexual abuse by a priest. I hope my book and interview can be a resource for you and others you know. https://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2020/04/30/local-author-carolee-tran-and-her-new-memoir-the-gifts-of-adversity/ Take good care friends and be well. Warmly, Carolee