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Through my training with IFS Institute as an IFS Informed Coach and my own experience getting past Complex-PTSD, I’ve learned that anxiety and depression are these young parts of yourself showing up and taking over agency of your thinking and actions. Loving them through release of the pain is the best way to allow those child parts of you to heal so you can feel more at ease and create the life you want and deserve.

Steve Sparks, Author, Blogger, Mental Health Advocate A Lifetime of Emotional Pain Healing came very late to me. Like so many of my peers from the post WWII generation, we were born to trauma from our fathers who served during WWII and Korean War. As a result, too many of us left home early with scars from profoundly dysfunctional homes. So, we marched head on into the Vietnam era in the 60s early 70s, already morally injured living with chaos as children of warriors. Sadly, for too many...

Recently a friend reached out to say they finally got to read through the "Healing Program" on Wrestling Ghosts' Website and how helpful it was. It made me reflect on how the pandemic, like most crises in our lives, can open up the opportunity to reassess our priorities and refocus on our and our families' wellbeing. Healing childhood trauma starts with understanding the impact of toxic stress in childhood. That understanding lifts our shame and self-blame. Then comes visualizing what...

I'm sharing this short article discussing the benefits of art-making and art therapy as people manage stress, process trauma, and work through difficult times-- such as a pandemic, quarantine, and social justice uprising. https://nexus.jefferson.edu/health/art-in-times-of-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR1JjfntwVg7fO0NfF54qxs9AYOMbIlOt4o1KnXvsymbGJTCIN26XTyejUQ

By Anna Almendrala, California Healthline, June 24, 2020 From Boston to San Bernardino, California, communities across the U.S. are declaring racism a public health crisis. Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate impact on communities of color, as well as the killing of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police, cities and counties are calling for more funding for health care and other public services, sometimes at the expense of the police budget. It’s unclear whether the...

Over 90 Speakers. Talks on Racism. Increasing resilience in the immune system during Covid. Healing trauma, freeze, chronic illness, and the cell danger response. Guided meditations. Yoga. Functional Medicine. The difference between stress and trauma.

CRACKED UP THE EVOLVING CONVERSATION Episode 4: Generational Trauma - Breaking the Cycle with Darrell Hammond, Comedian, actor, SNL Legend Michelle Esrick, Filmmaker, activist Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Author of The Body Keeps the Score Jane Stevens, Founder of ACES Connection and special guest Jane Fonda Academy Award-winning actor, producer, author and activist Thursday June 25th at 1pm PDT / 2p MT / 3p CT / 4pm EDT Hosted by ACEs Connection THE PRICE OF THIS LIVE EVENT IS $12.50 We have...

By The International Human Rights Clinic, The University of Chicago Law School, June 2020 This Report is being published in the midst of a long series of horrifying incidents of police abuse of power in the United States. The deaths of George Floyd, Lacquan McDonald, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Breonna Taylor and many others, have echoed throughout the communities of this nation and prompted protests across the country. The video and...

By Tuhin Biswas, James G. Scott, Kerim Munir, Andre M. N. Renzaho, Lal B. Rawal, Janeen Baxter, et al., EClinical Medicine, June 22, 2020 Abstract Background Suicidal ideation and anxiety are common among adolescents although their prevalence has predominantly been studied in high income countries. This study estimated the population prevalence of suicidal ideation and anxiety and their correlates with peer support, parent-adolescent relationship, peer victimization, conflict, isolation and...

By Rich Benjamin, The Intercept, June 20, 2020 “COPS,” the longest-running reality TV show in U.S. history, was recently canceled after more than 30 years on air. You’d be hard-pressed to find a TV viewer who couldn’t sing along to the show’s signature tune, “Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?” Having been nominated for an Emmy four times, “Cops” even spawned a trail of ubiquitous knockoffs, including “LAPD: Life on the Beat,” “Police POV,” and “Live PD.” The Paramount Network announced...

By George Farmer, Education Next, June 23, 2020 As the world has paused to analyze the deficiencies of police departments, it is not enough. All aspects of America have to examine areas of systemic injustice. That includes schools, which now have an opportunity to rise to the occasion and improve. American schools are de facto segregated based on income and ethnicity. Where students live determines the quality of education students will receive. Black and Latinx communities receive less...

From VetoViolence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, June 2020 New Training Helps Pediatric Medical Providers Recognize and Prevent ACEs You’re invited to explore the new Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Training for Pediatric Medical Providers . This training focuses on the central role that pediatric medical providers play in understanding, recognizing, preventing, and treating ACEs and their consequences. Lesson topics include: The Biological Impact of ACEs The...