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Can emotions sometimes be fully processed and resolved? Yes. Can that at least sometimes be accomplished by self alone, especially for a person who already has a lot of other resources? Yes. Beyond that, I worry about everything modern society teaches about emotions.

In this episode of Transforming Trauma, our host Emily is joined by psychotherapist, NARM Therapist and founder of Resilience Austin, Kimberley Mead. With a personal history that allows her a unique connection with clients, Kimberley uses a relational and somatic framework in working with grief and loss, C-PTSD, and adults of adoption. Kimberley always knew that she wanted to focus on adults of adoption, and specifically sought out training in how to address grief and trauma, aware that...

By Cindy Carcamo, Photo: Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2022 Ten years ago, Alessandro Negrete missed out on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — better known as DACA — a policy that gives certain immigrant youth who were brought to the United States as children a work permit and protection from deportation. In 2008, Negrete had been arrested for being drunk in public and fighting with a police officer. Although he eventually got...

By Asher Lehrer-Small, Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, The74, September 19, 2022 An increasing share of states are including student perspectives in education policymaking, a new report finds, but making sure those voices are diverse and have real power can remain a challenge. At least 33 now include formal positions for youth representatives on their state boards of education or as advisors to their state boards or their state superintendent’s office. That’s up from just 25 four...

By Nivida Chandra, Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto, The Guardian, September 20, 2022 I came to research the emotional neglect of children by accident. More than a decade ago, I wrote my master’s thesis on the relationship between the personal and professional lives of psychotherapists. How did they manage to keep the distress they heard in their clinics from affecting their own emotional balance? And how did they stop their personal challenges from affecting their clinical work? In our...

By Danielle Carr, Image: Nico Kijno, The New York Times, September 20, 2022 What if the cure for our current mental health crisis is not more mental health care? The mental health toll of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the subject of extensive commentary in the United States, much of it focused on the sharp increase in demand for mental health services now swamping the nation’s health care capacities. The resulting difficulty in accessing care has been invoked widely as justification for a...

By Rachel Zimmerman, Illustration: Washington Post illustration/Unsplash, The Washington Post, September 20, 2022 In a nod to the nation’s pressing mental health crisis, an influential group of medical experts for the first time is recommending that adults under age 65 get screened for anxiety. The draft recommendations, from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force , are designed to help primary care clinicians identify early signs of anxiety during routine care, using questionnaires and...

With an eye towards change and transformation, we will reflect on the journeys that these sky rivers take and what they have to teach us about responding to the climate crisis within ourselves and in community.

In this day of tumultuous breaking news, Lise Van Susteren knows how to calm us down – by helping us identify and unpack our reactor types and foster better relationships by showing us how to better understand each other.

Updates from the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) on White House, Agency, and Congressional action to prevent and heal trauma. Back to School! Help Educate Policymakers on Trauma-Informed Schools CTIPP just published a NEW report that breaks down the benefits and practices of trauma-informed schools. This streamlined report was created to educate policymakers, advocates, and agency staff across the country, as a high level overview about trauma-informed practices in...

Join hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, PACEs Connection director of communities, for this encore episode of their interview with Melissa T. Merrick, Ph.D., president and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America), wherein she covers many topics, focusing on “celebrating the possibility of prevention,” and the importance of focusing on the socio-political conditions we as a society must address to help all people thrive. For the month of September,...