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This is 19-year-old Emily Palmer from Wiltshire, southwest England, who is currently doing an apprenticeship in business administration. She's the author of a book on mental health for small children called Scrambled Heads. "I decided to write the book after my own experiences with mental health," Palmer told BuzzFeed News. "Having battled with anxiety and anorexia nervosa, I wanted to use my own experiences to encourage conversations on such an important topic." [For more of this story,...

When Allison Sampson-Jackson talks to kids who have experienced abuse or witnessed violence she is all energy and encouragement and in-your-face praise, like she was at the LaSalle School Thursday, as she helps them understand what trauma does to their brains. If she works with them a while, they learn to recognize stress responses in each other: "His amygdala's on fire!" they'll say when someone explodes or gets aggressive, referring to the brain's flight-or-fight center. And then: "Send...

Science shows children's exposure to trauma and toxic stress could lead to major health problems later in life. Walk into any classroom at Evansville's Ark Crisis Child Care Center, and you will find children who feel safe and welcome. "A lot of the kids that we see have lived in a number of different places, they don't have a home, they don't have some place to call their own," said Angie Richards Cooley, Ark Crisis Child Care Center executive director. "So we work really hard here at Ark...

NTHP - The Next Step In The Evolution of Our Healing. Trauma is the most misdiagnosed, mis treated and ignored dis-ease in the world today. What we currently define as trauma is at the foundation of most mental health disorders. Fortunately, there is now a way to deal with this epidemic. The Neuro Trauma Healing Process can bring not only relief to those who need it, but will turn the tables on and change the way we view and deal with mental health altogether. I am talking about the trauma...

Where are you on your healing journey? Are you just getting started? Are you about to take the next step? Are you stuck? Or are you in the messy middle, overwhelmed with grief, feeling like the tears and sadness will never end? If you feel stuck, that’s probably because you have no idea what to do next. That’s how I felt years ago when I realized I didn’t know how to receive my husband’s love. How could I not know something like that? It seemed so simple for everyone else. What was wrong...

Join me - Dr. Lee-Anne Gray - to learn some of the ways I help teens cultivate self-compassion! Based on Self-Compassion for Teens: 129 Activities and Practices to Cultivate Kindness - and sponsored by PESI: May 17, 2017 in St. Cloud, MN May 18, 2017 in Roseville, MN May 19, 2017 in Bloomington, MN Earn CEU's while accessing your own inner source of kindness so you can help others too! Topics covered: self-compassion, compassion, and empathy adhd anxiety depression anger procrastination...

Ever struggle to get the conversation going with teens? Wondering how to introduce mindful awareness and self-compassion to adolescents? Self-Compassion and Mindful Awareness for Teens - is a card deck based on Self-Compassion for Teens: 129 Activities & Practices to Cultivate Kindness. It's a handy-dandy set of quick reminders of some of the activities in the book. Topics covered include: Self-compassion compassion ADHD LGBT+ Body Image Anxiety Depression Check it out and let me know...

A few years ago, I was prompted to write a short e-book, The Happy Family , on the strategies we use in our home to promote more happiness. It all began with a formal family gratitude practice in January 2013, and morphed into 10 different strategies that create more harmony and respect in families. With mindful awareness practices infusing our home life, 10 strategies seemed to emerge simultaneously from the literature I was surveying in neuroscience, positive psychology, Buddhist...

Women are more likely to be anxious when they live in a poor community than in a more affluent one, a new British study suggests. But researchers say the same isn't true for men. "We see from our study that women who live in deprived areas not only have to cope with the effects of living in poverty, but are also much more susceptible to anxiety than their peers," said study lead author Olivia Remes. She's a candidate at the University of Cambridge Department of Public Health and Primary...

Should youth incarcerated in California juvenile halls and camps be entitled to new underwear? Should family and friends be assured that their visits to youth in detention facilities be in person rather than through video screens? Should these youth be guaranteed more time outdoors for exercise and fresh air? These are some of the concerns that advocates and formerly incarcerated youth are pushing for as California considers revisions to its regulations for its state and county detention...

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On May 13th, 2017 , Resilient KC, an initiative to build a trauma informed community through the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with Sesame Street in Communities will host a unique event, a Resiliency Rally . We are thrilled to open the event up to our regional community and hope that people from all walks of life will come out and learn about local resiliency tools they can add to their toolkit. Throughout the day, community members will be sharing stories of...