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Jodie Skillicorn is an osteopathic physician board certified in Psychiatry and a diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. She integrates conventional medical training with evidence-based holistic methods that include breathwork, meditation, yoga, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Mind-Body Medicine, energy medicine, nutrition, exercise, nature, and auricular acupuncture at

Community members working in Ottumwa, Iowa, have spread knowledge about ACEs and related topics and built champions for change—all without a formal coalition.

By Linda Jacobson; April 15, 2020 Dive Brief: Being an educator doesn’t mean an individual is naturally less biased toward students of color, but interventions can reduce prejudices, according to a study released Wednesday. In a test of implicit bias — in which respondents match white faces with “good” words and black faces with “bad” words — 77% of teachers demonstrated implicit bias, compared to 77.1% of non-teachers. And to measure explicit bias, the researchers, led by Jordan Starck, a...

by WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press, Wednesday, April 15th 2020 BOSTON (AP) — Seven years ago Wednesday, the unthinkable happened to Bobby O'Donnell: He was nearing the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon , where his family was gathered to cheer for him, when terrorist bombs killed three spectators and injured more than 260 others. His family escaped unscathed. Not O'Donnell, whose wounds were invisible and scarred his soul. “My injury,” he says, “was in my head.” It took years for...

Transforming Trauma: Soul Death and the Reclamation of the Soul – Healing Complex Trauma in Africa with Wangui Wanjiru The Transforming Trauma podcast welcomes special guest Wangui Wanjiru, a Kenyan clinical psychologist and first NARM Therapist on the African continent, who describes Soul Death, the Reclamation of the Soul, and the challenges of complex trauma care in Africa. Wangui describes the cultural orientation that’s very present in Kenyan culture, a key ingredient being the strong...

Reaching beyond the daily grind: Free, Easy, and Cheap options to achieve balance and a sense of control You like free and cheap strategies – read on! You already know the reality at this point - disrupted routine, boredom, kids home that demand attention, yearning for personal connection, trying to be productive and engage in meaningful activities. How do you reach beyond your current circumstances and bring color to your day, have structure, meaning, and texture in your life? Sinking into...

Human brains are hardwired to react viscerally to traumatic events. They then store those emotions in our central nervous, so that when we feel and experience similar future events, we will be alerted to new potential dangers. Emotional flashbacks, experienced by those living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder, are sudden and horrific, often prolonged, attacks from past highly traumatic events. Although these flashbacks are somewhat different than those experienced in post-traumatic...

Due to high demand we've added a 5th and final FREE Online ARTIC webinar Tuesday, April 21st, 3:00-4:00 pm EST Register today at this link The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) is hosting a FREE webinar for leaders in health, trauma, and trauma-informed care (TIC) to preview the new Online ARTIC, a cutting-edge online tool for measuring TIC. The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is one of the only validated measures of TIC. It measures professional and para-professional...

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, April 16, 2020 The old African-American aphorism “When white America catches a cold, black America gets pneumonia” has a new, morbid twist: when white America catches the novel coronavirus , black Americans die. Thousands of white Americans have also died from the virus, but the pace at which African-Americans are dying has transformed this public-health crisis into an object lesson in racial and class inequality. According to a Reuters report ,...

By Dante Chinni, American Communities Project, April 9, 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic is spreading across the United States in an uneven way that offers unique insights when viewed through the prism of the American Communities Project . For many Big Cities , the worst is here now. For the rural Aging Farmlands , the worst is likely still to come. And differences in medical resources in various county types suggest the coming months could bring serious challenges to some communities as the virus...

By Huiyun Kim, Sarah A. Burgard, and Kristin S. Seefeldt, Housing Matters, April 8, 2020 During and following economic recessions, labor market instability leads to housing instability as income shocks and increased volatility in income cause missed rent payments. To avoid the cascade of negative outcomes associated with housing instability, policymakers must understand what kinds of support can help families remain stably housed. In this study, researchers examined the association between...

By Jennie Day-Burget, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, April 3, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in thousands of deaths in the United States and has upended daily life for millions of people across the country. Part of the emergency response at all levels of government has been to ensure that children and families continue to have access to healthy affordable foods. The largest nutrition assistance program in the United States is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...