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By Emily Tate Sullivan, Photo: Kelsey Brunner/EdSurge, EdSurge, November 16, 2022 In a valley renowned for its world-class ski resorts and unrivaled outdoor recreation, with 14,000-foot peaks that pierce the horizon, five-star hotels, designer storefronts and multimillion-dollar mountainside mansions, there is a fleet of short, white buses stamped with geometric shapes. Parked in the lots of schools, churches and community centers, the buses are inconspicuous. Most passersby would overlook...

By Amy DiPierro and Corey Mitchell, Photo: Matt Manley/Center for Public Integrity, November 15, 2022 For months, Beth Petersen paid acquaintances to take her son to school — money she sorely needed. They’d lost their apartment, her son bouncing between relatives and friends while she hotel-hopped. As hard as she tried to keep the 13-year-old at his school, they finally had to switch districts. Under federal law, Petersen’s son had a right to free transportation — and to remain in the school...

By Associated Press in Washington, Photo: David J. Phillip/AP, The Guardian, November 16, 2022 Ninety percent of the counties in the US suffered a weather disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a new report. Some endured as many as 12 federally declared disasters over those 11 years. More than 300 million people – 93% of the population – live in these counties. Rebuild by Design, which published the report, is a non-profit that researches ways to prepare for and adapt to climate...

By The HOPE Team, 11/17/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE framework emphasizes the importance of positive childhood experiences, and Thanksgiving memories of family gatherings combine the sense of tradition, togetherness with extended family and friends. For many, Thanksgiving is a chance to pause and reflect on the things that are going right in our lives. Many of us recall Thanksgiving as a celebration of harvest and harmony, when families come together to watch...

Floating is a new trauma therapy method to support clients experiencing real contact and a healthy state of their nervous system: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O22u0a1OutA Floating directly addresses the core of developmental and attachment trauma by finding out current projections of clients in a group and resolving them. Floating follows a very clear approach and no information from the past is necessary. Everything will show up and be resolved in the ongoing Floating process. Floating is...

Recently I had a patient that had many years of dialysis and recently a kidney transplant. The emergency was a vehicle accident but with no life-threatening physical trauma, I dived into the real trauma. My patient emigrated to the United States after struggling in his homeland as a child, then spent five years in a refugee camp. He had poor health with kidney failure. Our conversation covered the possible trauma of life contributed to his kidney failure to joking about my E-pcr (electronic...

New!! 48-HOUR HISTORICAL TRAUMA SPECIALIST CERTIFICATION in collaboration with THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL TRAUMA ASSOCIATION We are the only entity offering a comprehensive, 48-hour Historical Trauma Specialist Certification Program. The Program is broken into 6 levels and is built on a foundation of BIPOC cultures and neurobiology. It is taught from a multicultural perspective, injecting traditions and ideology from various cultures from around the world. In this inclusive study we rely...

After a very long health hiatus, recovering from mycotoxin poisoning, I opened my most recent lab results and cried joyous tears at the news. All of the mycotoxins are back in the normal range.

Join us at the 2023 Montana Winter Institute for an hour each day online, January 23rd-27th, to hear from a diverse group of leaders and scientific researchers on topics at the intersection of diversity, inclusion and prevention . Those who register will have access to recordings of the presentations at the conclusion of the event. Register at: www.montanainstitute.com/mwi The Montana Institute exists to inspire AHAs about the positive in the world by creating conditions for liberating and...

The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) debriefs the 2022 midterm election & urges you to sign this letter to your U.S. Senator and U.S. House Congressmember.

Click this Youtube Video Nearly all of my earlier writings have been compiled, edited, expanded and integrated into a work called Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book, and then this was revised to a much expanded second edition, often referred to as MCTB2, which was published in July, 2018, available in print from from standard booksellers and from my kind publisher, Aeon books, also in a limited deluxe 200 print run hardbound with ribbon and nice...

By Michael Ollove, Photo: Jae C. Hong/The Associated Press, PEW, November 14, 2022 A grim and familiar pattern has followed the parade of mass shootings across America. In their aftermath, the nation’s attention focuses on the direct victims of the attacks, the dead and injured, their families and friends, and the witnesses. But a growing body of research reveals that the negative effects of mass shootings spread much farther than previously understood, harming the health of local residents...