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Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D. Psychology Today blog post, November 16, 2021 Strong, distressing emotions are disturbing enough. They also trigger and maintain the dysregulated stress that causes so much suffering in adults affected by ACEs. Regulating intense unpleasant emotions is the second step to healing.

First published in the Jamaica Observer Sharon Leach: What is the age range of children you’re targeting to read Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows and do you think this age group can be receptive to these themes? Juleus Ghunta: There are many themes in the book that literate children (5 years and up) will be able to understand on their own: the importance of strong human connections, the power of one's imagination, the value of reading. But as I wrote in the ‘Letter to Grown-ups’ at the front of...

If the words "beloved community", "fierceness", "truth" and "compassion" resonate in your heart, but you’re daunted by conversations about racism, please read on! My very dear colleague and collaborator, Roxy Manning, is working on Antiracist Conversations - the book so many people have asked her to write. And it’s powerful. Yesterday, we kicked off our campaign to secure at least 1000 pre-orders of Roxy Manning's courageous first book, Antiracist Conversations , so we can get this timely...

Lynnette Grey Bull (l) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Lynnette Grey Bull is founder and director of Not Our Native Daughters , a nonprofit created to educate and raise awareness of the missing, exploited, and murdered Indigenous women and children in the more than 300 tribes across the U.S. Grey Bull was raised in Pasadena, CA, where her parents, who met in college, had settled after leaving Billings, Montana. “I had great memories there,” she recalls. Her mother is Northern...

L-R Dr. Mary Cwik, Dr. Tami DeCoteau, Dan Press, Dr. Zach Kaminsky, photo courtesy of Elizabeth Prewitt In 1964, Dan Press was in his first year of law school and was not liking it; he wanted a way out. He applied for a volunteer spot with AmeriCorps VISTA, the domestic version of the Peace Corps, and was intrigued by a position on an Indian reservation. Dan Press “I knew nothing about Indians, but it sounded like a good opportunity,” says Press, who was raised in Flushing, in the Queens...

As 2021 comes to a close, we want to take a few moments to reflect on this busy and fruitful year as we ask you to remember PACEs Connection in your year-end giving. Despite this physically and emotionally challenging time, we have so very much for which to be grateful, and we would love to share our gratitude list with you. When we practice gratitude, we’re actually practicing a very PACEs-Connection thing to do: helping our brains. Brain imaging studies, says Dr. Daniel Amen, show that “...

By Elizabeth Estrada, Photo: Ryan Collerd/WHYY, October 15, 2021 Iresha Picot is many things: A licensed behavioral therapist. An organizer. A writer. A Black woman originally from Virginia. But in Philadelphia, where she’s lived the last decade and a half, she’s known best for being an Instagram inspiration. “On social media I call myself, Iresha da hood therapist, and I talk a lot about mental health and my own mental health and wellness,” Picot said as she sat in her West Philadelphia...

By Associated Press, WUSA9, November 14, 2021 A chance encounter between a big, friendly dog and a mentally withdrawn teen who had been sexually assaulted was the light bulb moment for Powhatan County Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Rob Cerullo, who discovered canines can have a discernible calming effect on traumatized victims of crime. In November 2020, Cerullo brought his new dog Olive — a then 12-month-old, 100-pound Bullmastiff — into the office to meet his co-workers. By coincidence, a...

By Livia Gershon, Photo: Anne-Marie Kellen/Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Magazine, November 15, 2021 The Metropolitan Museum of Art ’s period rooms typically invite visitors to step into a recreation of a very specific time and place: a bedroom in an ancient Roman villa north of Pompeii, for example, or a grand salon in 18th-century Paris. Either removed from historic estates and rebuilt at the Manhattan museum or designed by curators to showcase artifacts in authentic settings,...

PHOTO OF AN EXCERPT FROM THE NOVEMBER 3, 2021 RULES COMMITTEE PRINT 117–18 TEXT OF H.R. 5376, BUILD BACK BETTER ACT [Showing the text of H.R. 5376, as reported by the Committee on the Budget, with modifications.] With President Biden signing the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ( bridges, roads, internet access, etc.) November 15, it’s a good time to focus on the substance—not the legislative sausage-making—of the Build Back Better bill. The House of Representatives could...

By Allison Morrow, Photo: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg/Getty Images, CNN Business, November 15, 2021 Less than a month into her role as the chief executive of Citigroup, Jane Fraser made a decision that shook Wall Street. It was late March, and signs of burnout were everywhere after more than a year of remote work in the pandemic. Deal volume was at record highs and showed no signs of letting up. Over at investment banking rival Goldman Sachs, young analysts made headlines with workplace horror...

By Emily Alpert Reyes, Photo: Jason Armond, Los Angeles Times, November 15, 2021 Maria Guadalupe Reyes was worried about the urgent notice that had arrived, saying that her landlord was seeking to evict her from the house she rents. So she went straight to the usual place: the Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center. There, the 72-year-old handed the document over to paralegal Alejandra Patlán — a familiar face with pink hair and an unflappable manner — and waited outside the little room on...