I walked away from my elderly mother in that moment. And did not speak to her for the next three months. And it hurt my soul to do so. I cried. I shook off Catholic guilt. Yet I stayed firm. And as each day passed, I became more determined in my resolve to give her the space she needed to save herself. It was time for her to clean up her own mess and face those long-avoided demons of her own childhood.
By Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, January 2020 The significance of trauma has become an increasingly accepted tenet of complex care. While there is general agreement on the core principles of trauma-informed care and that trauma can negatively impact an individual’s health and well-being, there are many ways to apply a trauma-informed approach in different settings. Presenters Katy Davis from the University of California San Francisco Women’s HIV Program and Michelle Adyniec from...
Sarah Bennett, the author of Trauma-Sensitive Early Education, joins the show to talk about her book and how she integrated trauma-sensitive approaches into her work as a 1st-grade teacher. traumainformedlens.org
Detroit (CNN) Story by Holly Yan , CNN Photographs by Brittany Greeson for CNN Tuesday January 21, 2020 In the shadows of Detroit's tallest skyscrapers, dozens of homeless people shiver in the 17-degree cold. Ferocious wind gusts of 15 mph feel like cold knives stabbing the face. Such conditions claim the lives of countless homeless people every winter -- especially those without warm coats. Now, a nonprofit aimed at solving that problem has accidentally led to one of the most successful...
By Amy j. Elliot, Hannah C. Kinney, Robin L. Haynes, et al., Science Daily, January 20, 2020 SIDS is the sudden, unexplained, death of an infant under one year of age. Many studies have shown that the risk of SIDS is increased by maternal smoking during pregnancy. Some studies have also found that prenatal alcohol exposure, particularly from heavy drinking during pregnancy, can increase SIDS risk. Now, the NIH-funded Safe Passage Study provides a look at how SIDS risk is influenced by the...
By Yen Duong, North Carolina Health News, January 17, 2020 I knew going into my third pregnancy that it’s not a walk in the park: around two-thirds of pregnant women experience morning sickness, almost everyone experiences fatigue from building a placenta, the immune system changes, and sleep problems arise. But I never expected that it would be this bad. For months, I vomited four to six times a day, turned my nose away at almost all foods, couldn’t sleep at night for endless replays of...
By Matthew Udine, Parkland Talk, January 20, 2020 Last year, I set out to understand how my local community was dealing with the traumatic events that took place on February 14, 2018. In conjunction with Parkland Cares, a local nonprofit organization, I collaborated with the mental health professionals servicing the community and observed elevated levels of isolationism, substance abuse, and other anxiety associated symptoms. During the past holiday season, I spoke with affected students...
By Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, January 20, 2020 On the subject of his vocation, Philip Roth liked to quote Czeslaw Milosz: “When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.” It’s a great aphorism, pithy and cavalier, as emphatic as a gunshot. To write is to declare a loyalty that runs deeper than blood, to make a pledge to the self and its expression; to write well is to tell the truth about what you have seen, starting with where—and who—you come from. That, anyway, is...
By Larissa Marulli, Moms, January 21, 2020 According to a physiatrist and many studies, painful childhood memories affect us negatively far into adulthood. Issues from childhood affect both our physical and emotional health as we age. A book by psychiatrist Allen Wheelis titled How People Change looks into this phenomenon and gives some much-needed insight. In this book, Wheelis is able to describe childhood events that affected him well into his 60s. Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) have...
Growing Through Disaster, Tools for Financial and Trauma Recovery in Your faith Community In 1984 when my wife died suddenly I experienced my own personal disaster. I knew I could not deal with my loss alone. I was invited to attend a community support group for parents of small children who lost a spouse. I was also able to grow through my grief with the amazing support of my congregation. My next step was to start leading a faith-based support group for people who lost a spouse. Since then...
By Janice Wood, PsychCentral, January 6, 2020 The mere sight of an indoor plant can reduce stress in office workers, according to a new study. While it has been assumed that plant life is soothing to those required to regularly face stressful or mundane situations, the new study “scientifically verifies” the degree of psychological and physiological impact induced by indoor plants, the researchers noted. Researchers Masahiro Toyoda, Yuko Yokota, Marni Barnes, and Midori Kaneko at the...
By The Dickinson Press, January21, 2020 Beach Public Schools is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Village Family Service Center to provide school-based mental health services, thanks to funding from the Burgum Foundation and the Katherine Kilbourne Burgum Family Fund. Torina McConnachie, a licensed counselor with The Village’s Bismarck office, will provide in-house counseling one day a week, either in person at the school or via telemental health services. This includes...
By National Public Radio, January 2020 Menopause Can Start Younger Than You Think: Here's What You Need To Know Would you recognize the signs that your body is going through the big hormonal changes that lead to menopause? Here's what to look for — and what you can do about it. [ Please click here to explore the series .]
By Renee Ryberg, Nadia Orfali Hall, Claire Kelley, Jessica Warren, and Kristen Harper, Child Trends, January 2020 In 2015, an average 15-year-old could expect to live to age 79. However, teens living in the 1 percent of neighborhoods with the lowest life expectancies could expect to live to 70—a lifespan nine years shorter. Educational attainment, a key social determinant of health, is one of the most powerful predictors of life expectancy. This association has strengthened over the past 20...
By Fay Hanleybrown, Lakshmi Iyer, John Kirschenbaum, Sandra Medrano, Aaron Mihaly, FSG, January 2020 Employers of frontline talent face an unprecedented opportunity to advance racial equity as a source of competitive advantage. The United States is experiencing dramatic demographic shifts, its workforce is becoming increasingly racially diverse, and the nature of work is fundamentally changing due to automation. Approximately nine million of the country’s 24 million frontline...