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In this episode of Transforming Trauma our host Emily is joined by Isaac Samuelson, LPC. Isaac is a Chicago-based NARM Therapist who works primarily with people struggling with, discovering, or maintaining their queer identity. Isaac, who themselves identifies as queer, sees queer identity as strength, and seeks to collaborate with all clients to discover the challenges and joys in the lifelong journey of connecting with oneself. Having worked previously as an actor, performer and clown,...

By Jamiles Lartey, Photo: Thomas Simonetti/The Washington Post/Getty Images, The Marshall Project, August 20, 2022 Prosecutors have a tremendous amount of discretion around the criminal charges they do and — just as importantly — do not pursue. This has been an animating principle behind the rise of the so-called progressive prosecutor movement, and now some conservative opponents are targeting that discretion in a bid to shut the movement down. The most extreme example comes from...

By Jonathan Franklin, Photo: American Airlines, National Public Radio, August 22, 2022 In honor of the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license , American Airlines operated a flight out of Dallas with an all-Black, all-female crew. From the pilots and flight attendants to cargo team members and aviation maintenance technicians, the women operated and took charge of every aspect of the flight from Dallas to Phoenix. The airline hosted the Bessie...

By Shaila Dewan, Photo: Callaghan O'Hare/The New York Times, The New York Times, August 22, 2022 The freshman who walked into the high school cafeteria in Marysville, Wash., in 2014 with his father’s .40-caliber Beretta did not fit anyone’s profile of a mass murderer. He was a crack athlete. He embraced his Native American traditions, wearing a headdress at tribal events and offering freshly killed deer to his grandmother. He was popular, so much so that he had just been elected homecoming...

By William Dietz, HealthAffairs, August 18, 2022 Weight shame entertainment first captured American audiences through reality television shows that subjected people with obesity to extreme diets and often dangerous exercise regimes. Viewership for those programs has declined, but the weight shame entertainment has persisted on television by moving out of the gym to find a new setting for its drama: the doctor’s office. Recent shows have replaced personal trainers with professional-seeming...

By Mark Keierleber, Photo: NASSP.org, The74, August 22, 2022 Shortly after the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School that left 13 people dead, then-Principal Frank DeAngelis got a phone call. On the other end of the line was a school leader from Kentucky who had endured a shooting of his own just two years earlier. “He called me up and said, ‘Frank, you don’t even know what you need, but here’s my number,’” DeAngelis said during an event Monday at the Columbine Memorial in Littleton,...

By Dr. Arastou Aminzadeh, Founder, BNI Treatment Centers The teen years are challenging enough as it is, so imagine how much harder it must be for a teen with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to navigate this phase of life. Parents often feel helpless watching their teen struggle with the disorder. There are, however, some useful tips parents can access to support their teen with ADHD. About Teen ADHD ADHD is a type of neurodevelopmental disorder that is more prevalent in...

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Please join us for our series Education Upended—Talking Out of Turn. This series features a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection education consultant, with special guests on education, related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs-science lens to examine what's going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system. August Session, Tuesday...

Note: While this is about my recent experience as a patient in a clinical trial for advanced ovarian cancer, I share it here because it's written from a survivor perspective. It's relevant for anyone who cares about trauma-informed policy and practice, in medical settings and beyond. There is a difference between researching, diagnosing and treating a condition, any condition, whether PTSD, or cancer, and living with that diagnosis and treatment. Too often (and not just in medical settings),...

“Sometimes we need to be reminded that we are a powerful movement, and collectively we are making a difference,” says Lara Kain, PACEs Connection education consultant. She joins this week’s History. Culture. Trauma. podcast with fellow educators and hosts, PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren, and director of communities, Mathew Portell. Cockhren and Portell are focused on the start of the 2022-2023 school year, and welcome colleague Kain o n Thursday, August 25 at 1 p.m. PT, 4 p.m. ET, when...

[ Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Jane Stevens] Child Abuse Theodorou CM, Brown EG, Jackson JE, Beres AL. Child Abuse and the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Surg Res. 2022 Aug;276:18-23. PMID: 35325681 Of children 5...