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This past Sunday, I had one of those most glorious and luxurious of days. It started with breakfast in bed with my girlfriend brought to us by my sweet guy. Then he wandered off, and she and I were left with hours of time to fill with all of our luscious feminine energy. Next up was a 90 minute Healing in Motion movement class, during which we got to embody different types of weather and did some mirroring movement exercises as well. This led to our bodies opening up, stretching, and...

CONCORD, NH — The New Hampshire Department of Education is partnering with The Regulated Classroom to assist educators throughout the state in preparing their students for learning and equipping educators with resources to reduce stress and dysregulation in the classroom. “This new collaboration is aimed to support teachers who may be experiencing disruptions in their school environments, who today, are struggling with dysregulated students that have had inconsistent and disrupted...

By Arthur Acolin, Alex Ramiller, et al., Photo: Imagenet/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, January 26, 2022 Homeownership is a key tool for wealth building, particularly for households with low and moderate incomes, for whom homeownership is often their primary means of asset building. Yet barriers to entry, including down payments and other borrowing constraints, prevent many households from accessing and equitably benefiting from homeownership. Shared-equity homeownership (SEH) programs are...

By Musa al-Gharbi, Photo: Amy Harris/Rex/Shutterstock, The Guardian, January 27, 2022 A ccording to a number of polls and surveys , significant majorities of Republican-aligned voters seem to believe the big lie that Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 US presidential election and, consequently, the Biden administration is illegitimate. Taking these data at face value, a growing chorus insists that we’re living in a “post-truth” era, where members of one political party, the Republican...

By Laura Bliss, Photo: Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images, Bloomberg City Lab, January 26, 2022 In 2019, just 0.5% of U.S. commuters rode a bike to work, the smallest share of any mode. But tiny shifts can make a big difference. Data-driven bike plans, safety improvements and supportive political leadership helped boost bike commute rates in several cities in recent years, according to a new report from the League of American Bicyclists. In “ Benchmarking Bike Networks ,” the...

By Mical Raz, Photo: Michael Blackshire/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, January 28, 2022 A new study has found that babies of poor mothers who received cash stipends last year had changes in their brain activity patterns. As the expanded, refundable child tax credit (CTC) has expired and key politicians, in particular Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), have been withholding their support for reviving this important anti-poverty program, its supporters have expressed hope that this...

Have you ever believed the worst about a situation that may or may not have happened? For instance, you call home from work, and your partner doesn’t answer. Immediately, you believe that there has been a horrible accident, and you just don’t know about it yet. That is called catastrophic thinking. This article will focus on this phenomenon and how to overcome this rumination of doom. What is Catastrophic Thinking? Catastrophic thinking is an anxious behavior that may be part of the symptoms...

February 4th, 2022 - 1pm-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems Making these sectors trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered You’re invited to participate in the third of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience”. This half-day workshop will occur virtually and focus on promising practices in the child welfare and justice systems, as well as teach...

Organizations, agencies, departments, businesses, and industries, the list goes on and on. They all seem to be struggling with employee retention, recruitment, and issues of burnout. If we were to take a peek into the organizational cultures of these organizations I'm wondering if we would find a culture that is thriving or surviving? Do they care for their employees through a human lens, or as just a number? Do they employ compassion or authority when managing employees? A trauma-informed...

A customer rests their head down while speaking with a Delta Airlines employee at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport on January 13, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images [Editor's note: Bessel van der Kolk's book mentioned below, has been on the New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list for 170 weeks.] When we talk about the pandemic, we talk about stress. Burnout. Uncertainty. Isolation. We don't talk as much about trauma. But a growing number of mental health...

The following four trauma trainings are available in February. Trainings provided by PA Care Partnership and taught by Lakeside Global Institu te. Register for any or all trainings: https://lakesidelink.com/training/pa-care-partnership-training-winter-2022/ Training Descriptions: Trauma 105: An Introduction to Trauma for Parents & Caregivers Parents and Caregivers can play an important role in helping children recover from traumatic events. This workshop is designed to provide parents...

By Jessica Nunez, Photo: Diego Cervo/iStock, California Health Report, January 11, 2022 For the past two years, student life has been different. The university I attend, UCLA, transitioned to virtual learning, which meant students couldn’t see a single professor or classmate in person. For students from low-income families, like me, this change was extremely challenging. More than 70 percent of students attended school remotely during the first year of the pandemic, statistics show . This...