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What's the difference between listening and hearing? We can’t control what we hear. Hearing is second nature. Listening requires focus. Imagine you’re standing in line at a coffee shop while music plays overhead. Everyone in the shop hears the music, but only a few of them might be listening to it. Who are our listeners? Most likely, the patrons in line with nothing else to do except wait will be listening. The busy barista can’t focus on the music, so they aren’t listening. The same is true...

When there is alcohol or substance-abuse in the family, it is often a central theme around which the entire family is organized. Yet for the most part, treatment is just with the individual and does not actively involve the entire family. This free webinar by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want concrete tools to bridge the gap from individual to family trauma treatment for substance-abuse issues. Case examples and handouts will be provided. DATE: Wednesday, November 16 TIME: 12 - 1 pm...

Dare To Share Your Untold Story: Episode 58: Michael Skinner - Trauma Accumulated, Misperception of Illness and Finding his way to be Impactful - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dare-to-share-your-untold-story/id1550712085 or Dare To Share Your Untold Story: Episode 58: Trauma Accumulated, Misperception of Illness and Finding his way to be Impactful - https://daretoshare.libsyn.com/episode-58-trauma-accumulated-misperception-of-illness-amp-finding-his-way-to-be-impactful ‘Dare To Share...

Hello everyone. I'm jabulile Daka, and I run the PACEs Community here is Zambian. I'm honest at my wit's end right now. I've tried everything in my knowledge to make things work for both my organisation and myself, but nothing is working. I recently asked for a divorce from my husband who has been extremely emotionally neglectful, and even abusive. Now I'm supporting my 3 children on my own, but nothing is working!😩 I have no food in the house, and I've just been evicted from my home and I...

One of the most radical implications of the literature on early childhood trauma is that abuse needs to be eliminated from all of our relationships—with our families, teachers, colleagues, and government . When government leaders create a new policy, they can proceed in a way that dis-empowers constituents, or they can proceed in a way that fosters dialogue and shared decision-making. Ironically, the development and implementation of California’s policy to address childhood trauma provides...

The Stockade Paradox says that we must accept the brutal realities of our existence, yet maintaining enduring hope that we will prevail in the end. I have applied the Paradox to my study of ACE's which began in 2008. I was an early advocate for addressing ACEs in Alaska. In 2013 I wrote a resolution for a Representative in Alaska that called for considering ACEs in health and other policies in Alaska. It took years, but the Representative and other allies improved the resolution I submitted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSnCEGHcPYc Rev. Dr. Phillip Fleming, BA, CRPA, NYCPS-P, CCAR-RC, Hon. D.Div. U.L.C. WCNY-IPA Regional Peer Network Coordinator, New York City Region Peer Specialist, Bee Well LLC, Fountain House Volunteer, Baltic Street Resource and Wellness Center CCAR-Designated Recovery Coach Fountain House Board of Directors and Council Member Board Member, New York Association of Black Psychologists Ordained Minister, Universal Life Church Ministries Honorary Doctor of...

By Brian Howey, Wesley Lowery, and Steven Rich, Photo: Matthew Staver/The Washington Post, October 21, 2022 The way Kenneth Gilbert Jr. and his father tell the story, it had been a busy morning running errands in east Atlanta when their pickup was suddenly cut off by a dark truck and forced onto the curb. Once Gilbert Sr. got back on the road, he said, the truck swerved back into their lane. Gilbert Sr. said he hit the gas and sped around it, making a sweeping motion with his hand as he...

By Emma Bubola, Photo: Mashid Mohadjerin/The New York Times, The New York Times, October 21, 2022 By the time her extraordinarily wealthy grandmother died last month, Marlene Engelhorn already knew who she wanted to be the ultimate beneficiary of the enormous inheritance coming her way: the tax man. “The dream scenario is I get taxed,” said Ms. Engelhorn, the co-founder of a group called Tax Me Now. Ms. Engelhorn, a 30-year-old who grew up in Vienna, is part of a growing movement of young,...

By Hallie Golden, Photo: Mad River Brewing Company, The Guardian, October 23, 2022 T hese days, you’ll see them sprinkled across Oracle Park, the stadium of the San Francisco Giants: bright blue cans with images of a steelhead fish flapping above a waterway, a deer with its head to the ground or a dam in the Klamath River. The cans are produced by the Mad River Brewing Company, owned by the largest federally recognized Indigenous nation in California , the Yurok Tribe. And in April, they...

While the process of forgiving painful offenses from childhood can be very difficult, efforts to forgive bring great rewards. The process begins with acknowledging the pain, applying self-compassion, and taking even small and faltering steps to get the forgiveness ball rolling.

As a clinician, researcher and policy specialist devoted to the prevention and treatment of the ill effects of child abuse and neglect (CAN), I read “Recommendations for Population-Based Applications of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: Position Statement by the American College of Preventive Medicine”, a position statement by the American College of Preventive medicine, with dismay . (Sherin KM, Stillerman A, Chandrasekar L, Went N, Niebuhr DW. Recommendations for Population-Based...