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Transforming Trauma Episode 053: Mind-Body Healing with Dr. Lissa Rankin in conversation with Dr. Laurence Heller In this episode of Transforming Trauma, we hear an extraordinary conversation between mind-body physician and author Dr. Lissa Rankin, MD, and NARM creator Dr. Laurence Heller, PhD. Their conversation centers around healing through the integration of western and non-western healing modalities. Dr. Rankin believes that to optimize healing it takes an integrated approach between...

This article will tackle active and passive suicide and may not be suitable for sensitive audiences. In our first article about self-harm, we tackled the subject with as much kindness as the topic would allow. Self-harm is a sensitive subject that had to be tackled to bring it out of the shadows and into the light where we can understand it and perhaps, someday, make it possible to end it. Suicide is a topic most people would rather sweep under the rug because we are all afraid of the...

By Mila Koumpilova, Chalkbeat, October 5, 2021 As students across the country wrestled with pandemic stress last winter, sophomore Nathaniel Martinez logged on to a virtual retreat. Forty mostly Black and Latino teens in Chicago were getting a crash course on gauging how their peers were coping. They also opened up about pressures they faced amid the COVID-19 outbreak and an uptick in gun violence , from depression to disengagement from school. Nathaniel spoke about struggling to focus in...

By Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, October 5, 2021 T he grain elevator exploded on a cool April morning in 1987, six years before I was born. My father was testing a clay sample in a lab two miles away when suddenly the dial jumped. He ran outside, thinking that a car had smashed into the building. My mother, doing yard work at home, assumed that the nearby ammunition plant was testing a new explosive. Dale Alison saw the blast up close. He was 32 years old, and it was his first day as the...

By Katie Prout, Chicago Reader, September 29, 2021 Early in April 2020, my boyfriend Carter asked, not unkindly, if I’ve ever been diagnosed with anything besides my generalized anxiety disorder. “What do you mean?” I asked innocently, my pockets full of rocks. He warily eyed the front of my pink raincoat, which bulged like the pouches of bullfrogs. “Can we keep the rocks down to maybe five a day?” he said. We shared the apartment with four other people and two dogs; in our tiny bedroom, the...

By Shameka Poetry Thomas, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, October 5, 2021 My grandmother was a traditional healer and a medicine-woman in Georgia’s rural South. Although I grew up in Miami’s Opa-Locka (a small urban neighborhood tucked between Miami-Gardens and the cusp of Hialeah / Little Havana), I spent most summers near middle Georgia’s farmland, listening to my grandmother. I observed how grandmother, who did not have a Ph.D., gathered Black women in...

By The Imprint Staff Reports, The Imprint, October 1, 2021 The nine years years that Reginald Dwayne Betts spent in prison didn’t stop him from being one of this year’s recipients of the prestigious “genius” grant through the MacArthur Fellowship. It’s not the remarkable accomplishments Betts achieved since his prison stretch — including earning a law degree from Yale University — that brought him a MacArthur Fellowship , but the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s faith that he...

Date and time: Thu, 21 October 2021 10:00 – 11:30 PDT Co-sponsored by Mad in America Continuing Education and Brandon University Note: You can register for free with the code "Freebie." All webinars are recorded and posted on our site, education.madinamerica.com. The participants will be introduced to highlights on social justice and systems transformation goals and activities of mental health advocates/activists in Manitoba, Canada based on an oral history project. Lisa Walter and Nigel...

KPJR Book Club Back-To-School Q&A An Intimate Conversation With Award-Winning Author Rodney Walker Rodney Walker is an American author, entrepreneur, and inspirational speaker. He is the bestselling author of " A New Day One " and " Wounds You Can Not See ", and is most known for his work in trauma-informed education. His award-winning keynote The Power of Resilience: From 12 Foster Homes to Harvard University , has received acclamation by school districts across the nation. A Chicago...

Forward-Facing Face2Face: Overcome Toxic Stress by Hacking Your Nervous System This free short intensive webinar will give you the insight and tools to begin to rewire your anxious thoughts and emotions to live a life of self-regulation & intentionality. Most of these tools do not require a lot of time and just minimal effort, but should be done consistently to see lasting change. You will learn: Identify the true causes of stress in personal and professional life. Learn skills for...

By Rosanna Xia, The San Diego Union-Tribune, September 30, 2021 In a history-making move celebrated by reparations advocates and social justice leaders across California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has authorized the return of property known as Bruce’s Beach to the descendants of a Black couple that had been run out of Manhattan Beach almost a century ago. Senate Bill 796, signed into law Thursday by Newsom before an excited crowd that had gathered on the property, confirms that the city’s taking of...

(Training for the Delaware State Police Department, September 8-9, 2021) Empathy for those served, for one another, and for oneself can enhance the quality of life for those in law enforcement. Further, empathy is enhanced through understanding why many people behave as they do, which is a central tenet of being trauma informed. In 2019, the IACP adopted a resolution encouraging all law enforcement agencies to become well informed about the correlation between adverse childhood experiences...