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Betsy Polatin is a professor of the Alexander Technique at Boston University College of Fine Arts, and on the faculty of The Opera Institute. Having taught worldwide for over thirty years, Betsy is a specialist in working with actors, musicians and other performers. As Betsy teaches students from all different professions to use themselves to their utmost potential, she also integrates the Breathing Coordination principles developed by Carl Stough ground-breaking breathing specialist.

James R. Doty, M.D. is the founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University of which His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the founding benefactor. Dr. Doty works with a variety of scientists from a number of disciplines examining the neural bases for compassion and altruism. He is also a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine.

By The HOPE Team, 2/8/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Register for the 2022 HOPE Summit – Growing HOPE before February 11 th for our early bird discount! Growing HOPE is a one-day virtual conference that will be interactive and give you clear ways to add the HOPE Framework into your day to day work and organization. We will be offering a wide variety of workshops during the afternoon, and you can attend three of them. The workshops will cover HOPE in direct services,...

By Devin Dwyer and Sarah Herndon, Image: Screen shot from ABC News video, ABC News, February 7, 2022 Groundbreaking research by several top American medical centers has identified a COVID pandemic spike in cases of so-called "broken heart syndrome," a potentially deadly stress-induced heart condition that doctors say is disproportionately impacting women. "My heart felt like it was pounding out of my chest," said Mary Kay Abramson, 63, of Brookeville, Maryland, who was diagnosed with the...

By Terry Gross, Photo: mjrodafotografia/Getty Images, February 1, 2022 When her husband left her after more than 25 years together, science writer Florence Williams says her body felt like it had been plugged into a faulty electrical socket. "I can almost describe it like a brain injury," she says. "I wasn't sleeping at all. I felt really agitated." Williams wanted to understand her physical reaction to the breakup, so she began speaking to scientists in the U.S. and England about the...

This is the third of three stunning illustrations showing how PACEs (positive and adverse childhood experiences) affected the family of Cendie Stanford, graphic artist and founder of the nonprofit ACEs Matter. This one looks at her positive childhood experiences. The day before her 16th birthday, Cendie Stanford’s older brother was shot and killed by a young man who, just two years earlier, had been her boyfriend. “I was heartbroken that two people I loved were out of my life forever,” says...

By British Broadcasting Corporation, Photo: Getty Images, British Broadcasting Corporation, February 2, 2022 The tentative deal - with Johnson & Johnson and three major drug distributers - is worth $590m (£436m). The companies had been accused of "knowingly pushing addictive drugs into vulnerable communities". A statement from Johnson & Johnson said it admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement. [ Please click here to read more .]

By Molly Scott, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Brookings, January 25, 2002 he Build Back Better bill has stalled. On one point, we agree with Senator Joe Manchin that it is time for Congress to start with a “clean sheet of paper” by evaluating how each policy in the legislation betters American society. In this context, the portions in the bill targeting children and families are an imperative. They offer a particularly strong return on investment and just released data...

By Tik Root, Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images, The Washington Post, February 7, 2022 A trip to the doctor can yield any number of recommendations, including bed rest and medicine. But as of late January , Canadian patients can be sent home with a more novel note: a prescription for a national parks pass. “There’s almost no medical condition that nature doesn’t make better,” said Melissa Lem, a family physician and director of the PaRx initiative , which partnered with Parks Canada...

A Message from UCAAN's Leadership Dear ACEs Aware family, California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has announced that she will step down from her position on February 11. It is hard to overstate her influence in catalyzing the statewide movement to identify, address, and overcome the health impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress on California's families. In just two years, she worked with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to launch...

By David Rock, Image: Busa Photography/Getty Images, Harvard Business Review, February 7, 2022 I was a few minutes into a run when it happened. Moving fast along the grassy edge of a backwoods road, my left foot found the edge of a pothole, and my ankle rolled. The intense pain put me into shock, a sequence of metabolic phenomena that starts with a burst of adrenaline. A remnant of our evolutionary past, when a burst of energy may have helped us outrun a predator, adrenaline has multiple...

By Joel Knudson and Jennifer O'Day, Photo: Liv Ames/EdSource, EdSource, February 7, 2022 A s 2022 begins, educators, students, families and communities continue to navigate a state of prolonged and volatile crisis. The persistent spread of Covid-19 has compounded the challenge of ensuring safe and healthy learning environments. Meanwhile, too many students continue to suffer from the ongoing effects of the pandemic — academically, socially, emotionally and mentally. Community schools may...