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To view the December 2024 newsletter, please click here, Take a Look inside TREC's first year! Dear TREC Community, What an extraordinary and exhilarating year 2024 has been for TREC! As we reflect on our journey, we are filled with immense pride and gratitude for all that we've accomplished together. From the launch of our 1.25.24 program to the milestone of December 5, 2024, we've seen remarkable progress: 3,300 TREC courses completed, 470 Trauma-Resilient Professionals Certified, and 22...

When starting a career in a relationship-intense field whether in education, healthcare, social work, or family services, the demands can feel both inspiring and overwhelming. While the rewards of helping others are significant, the emotional labor involved often takes a toll. For new professionals, the concept of self-care may seem secondary to the mission of serving others. Worse, some may fear that prioritizing their own needs could appear selfish. Let’s dispel that myth. Self-care is not...

We are inviting folks who are a part of the adoption circle: adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, siblings of adoptees, or extended family members to write a short story about their experience. Sharing, personal reflections, a piece of the journey… challenges, joys, anecdotes that you may remember. There are so many layers to adoption as a way to build a family. Your story can be any length, however, 300 to 2,000 words is preferable…but we will find a way to include everyone’s stories.

Music & Thoughts To Share - As You Walk Away by Michael Skinner – YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFLyiBaJ5nE A song about estrangement. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel. & More tunes are coming!! “When we bring things out into the light, they lose their power over us.” - Al-Anon. “The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” - Roy Ayers. “There never was a time when a major social problem was...

Why is Self-Care Vital? Some might think of self-care as doing something for yourself after a long day of work. Most individuals think self-care is something they should make time for after work, but self-care is much more than that. Especially when working in a relationship-intense profession, it is imperative that you take time for self-care before becoming burned out. On Simmons University's website, they discuss the importance of self-care before reaching the burnout state. One common...

Prediabetes is a diagnosed medical condition where individuals have elevated blood sugar levels, but are not elevated enough to give a diagnosis of diabetes (Cervoni, 2023). Approximately 96 million Americans have prediabetes, and 80% are asymptomatic (Cervoni, 2023). Symptoms associated with prediabetes include polydipsia, pollakiuria, hyperphagia, refractive error, asthenia, neuropathy, chronic disease, and chronic non-healing wounds (Cervoni, 2023). Prediabetes can be reversed by taking...

Google studied its internal teams in hopes of building more successful teams. They found the greatest influence on performance was psychological safety. The Google Study on Effective Teams In an effort they called “ Project Aristotle ,” Google invested two years studying over 100 groups, determined to discover how to build a perfect team. Their findings are reflected in the project name: it was Aristotle who said, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” The research team defined...

I am Developmental Trauma (DT) survivor, and for 20+ years I have worked in various corporate HR roles. I have witnessed first hand - first in myself and then others - how a history of childhood abuse and neglect can interfere later on in life with performance, wellbeing and progression at work. That might have been just me and a small number of co-workers. OR it might be a much bigger topic affecting many other survivors that we're just not talking about yet.

Abstract Intimate partner violence (IPV) can include emotional, physical, or sexual violence. IPV during pregnancy is a preventable cause of injury and death with negative short- and long-term impacts for pregnant women, infants, and families. Using data from the 2016–2022 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System in nine U.S. jurisdictions, CDC examined associations between IPV during pregnancy among women with a recent live birth and the following outcomes: prenatal care initiation,...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/us/california-school-shooting/index.html Common sense gun laws, absolutely! But… Most, if not all, of these shooters have personality disorders. Therefore, preventing personality disorders must play a part. Unsupportive and harmful parenting is highly correlated with personality disorders. If we want to put an end to this kind of violence ten, twenty, fifty years down the road, parenting education must be a significant part of the solution. Not conventional...

By Cleanthis Michael, Arianna M. Gard, Scott Tillem, et al, JAMA Pediatrics, Image: from Unsplash , October 28, 2024 Key Points Question Are there sensitive periods when parenting during childhood is associated with functional brain architecture during adolescence and, in turn, mental health during early adulthood? Findings This longitudinal cohort study of 173 youths demonstrated that associations between harsh parenting and brain architecture were widespread in early childhood, but...