Key Healing Attitudes for Adverse Childhood Experiences
For moving past hidden wounds from childhood, mindset matters. These important attitudes undergird the process of healing from adverse childhood experiences.
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The NJ Office of Resilience Has Shifted Its Focus from Self-Healing Communities Model to Healing-Centered Engagement Model
The shift to a Healing-Centered Engagement Model releases culture as a root cause of trauma, to instead celebrate the intrinsic resilience and the capacity to promote PCEs that ethnic history, racial and other social identities afford. This is particularly important for white, privileged communities to embrace, given their historical diminishment of non-white cultures.
Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health Are NOT Synonyms
Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.
What is psychological safety? (mckinsey.com)
To read more of the McKinsey & Company's article, please click here. Humans need a minimum number of their needs met in order to survive, contribute to a community, and achieve self-actualization, according to Maslow’s famous hierarchy . Social scientists now believe that psychological safety is one of these basic needs, a prerequisite for people to be at their best in all aspects of life, including home, school, and work. Psychological safety means feeling safe to take interpersonal...
The Surviving Spirit Newsletter July 2023
The latest Surviving Spirit Newsletter - Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is out - It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20230724161930/ or this - http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2023-07-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_July_2023.pdf “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran Contents List :...
Richard Branson Says EQ Is More Important Than IQ for Success. Science Suggests He's Right (inc.com)
Richard Branson. Photo: Getty Images To read more of Jessica Stillman's article, please click here. Richard Branson flunked out of school at age 16, never to return. He still managed to amass a net worth of several billion dollars, earn himself a knighthood, and appear to have a boatload of fun in the process. So perhaps it's no surprise that when someone on LinkedIn recently asked him what was more important for success in life, EQ or IQ, he answered firmly in favor of emotional...
Shame Thought Traps and Adverse Childhood Experiences
Disturbing thought patterns linked to shame are learned. They can be challenged and replaced.
Implementing a Trauma Informed Approach: The Attachment Regulation and Competency Framework
The ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute is delighted to welcome Chris Moynihan and Nic Shields as our guest speakers for the August Resilience Speaker Series, presenting “ Implementing a Trauma Informed Approach: The Attachment Regulation and Competency Framework. ” Implementing trauma informed care into an organizational culture can be a challenging endeavor. Mr. Moynihan and Mr. Shields will share the lessons learned from one organization's multiyear efforts to implement the...
Buildings That Can Heal in the Wake of Trauma
Trauma-informed Design was featured by Bloomberg CityLab in this article, by Zach Mortice, that highlights the work going on across the sector by Rev. Laura AG Rossbert, Erin K. Peavey, Alina Osnaga, as well as our own at the Trauma-informed Design Society and Trauma-informed Design Consultants.
I am a therapist and my client died tragically. Here is what it taught me about grief that can't be found in textbooks. (msn.coom)
The author. Courtesy of Juliet Lam Kuehnle © Provided by INSIDER To read more of Juliet Lam Kuehnle's article, please click here. I found out through word of mouth that one of my clients had died. I couldn't tell anyone I knew this person because of HIPPA laws, so I had to deal with the grief alone. I don't think of the relationships with my clients as a job. I found out by word of mouth. While I live in a relatively big city, it can feel so small at times. I heard through the grapevine that...
Employees are feeling a lot of negative emotions at work, but C-suite execs and managers have no idea because they’re struggling too (fortune.com)
Employee well-being is a growing concern in the workplace. Frazao Studio Latino—Getty Images To read more of Prarthana Prakash's article, please click here. The quest to achieve work-life balance is as old as time. The workplace has undergone a sea change in recent years with the adoption of remote work, elevated levels of employee burnout, and mass layoffs. Amid all these forces, employee well-being is taking a hit. Most workers have reported that their health either worsened or remained...
The Surviving Spirit Newsletter June 2023
Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran The Surviving Spirit Newsletter June 2023 Hi folks, Welcome to the the June issue of the Surviving Spirit Newsletter. It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe -...
Companies Must Treat Employee Well-Being as a Business Imperative (usnews.com)
Businesses must do their part to support employees' mental and physical health. (GETTY STOCK) To read more of Cesar Carvalho's article, please click here. The workforce is facing a well-being crisis. Absences due to illness have seen some all-time highs recently, due in part to continued health effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. Increasingly, mental health problems are hurting businesses and entire economies. The World Health Organization says 12 billion working days are lost to depression...
Rising from the Ashes of Childhood Brutality
Country music artist Allen Karl (Sterner) endured unspeakable childhood cruelty and chaos, yet turned into a caring, competent adult. His story provides many useful insights that can help and inspire others who have endured multiple ACEs.
Beyond Identity Funding: Rethinking Social Justice Philanthropy (nonprofitquarterly.org)
Image Credit: Conor O’Nolan on unsplash.com To read more of Catherine Hyde Townsend and Diana Samarasan's article, please click here. Throughout its history, social justice philanthropy has generally remained organized around siloed identities, such as gender, race, and sexual orientation. The sector has largely ignored the ways oppression plays out across intersecting or fluid identities. In the 2022 report, Funding for Intersectional Organizing: A Call to Action for Human Rights...