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By Gabe Ortiz, Photo: AFP/Getty Images, Daily Kos, January 1, 2022 The previous administration used its final weeks of power to push through a final slew of anti-immigrant policies , including an “unconscionable” move freezing the wages for thousands of seasonal farmworkers for two years. It was a plan to financially benefit farmers while screwing over the kind of workers that very same administration had declared “ essential ” amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. But because of successful...

By Pooja Lakshmin, Photo: Csilla Klenyánszki, The New York Times, February 4, 2021 As a psychiatrist specializing in women’s mental health, nearly every mother I have treated during the pandemic fights through decision fatigue, rage and a feeling of powerlessness every day. This isn’t breaking news. Burnout among parents, in particular moms, has been a defining principle of this global disaster. Clinical-level burnout is defined by a triad of symptoms: exhaustion, a sense of futility and...

This series of articles in September has focused primarily on advocating and supporting someone who has suicidal ideations or has attempted to die by suicide. As September is National Suicide Awareness Month, we shall continue to address the causes and treatment available to those who are suicidal and their families and friends. In this article, we shall examine together the link between complex trauma and suicidal ideation, examining closely what both are and how to help someone you love...

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Intro to Trauma Informed Care is for YOU! Designed to help you implement a trauma-informed approach throughout your organization, this live webinar provides an introductory understanding, and will equip you with tools you can use right away.

By Neda Ulaby, Photo: Kathy Tarantola/Peabody Essex Museum, National Public Radio, January 6, 2022 Your imagination does the work at The Great Animal Orchestra – you just sit in a dark room and listen. Currently at the Peabody Essex museum in Salem, Mass ., through May 22, the exhibition immerses visitors into soundscapes from remote parts of the planet: seven of them, from the tropics to the tundra. No wildlife footage accompanies this symphony of wild animals. It's audio first, in a...

By Gretchen Reynolds, Photo: Gabriela Bhaskar, The New York Times, January 5, 2022 After two years of Covid-19 and its disruptions to our exercise routines, many of us may feel like we have forgotten how to be fit. But an encouraging new study suggests that our muscles remember. The study involved mice, but it builds on similar experiments with weight training and people. It found that muscles developed a pervasive and lasting molecular “memory” of past resistance exercises that helped them...

By John Fensterwald, Photo: Andrew Reed, EdSource, January 6, 2022 At Pacific Elementary School, lunches are cooked from scratch daily with local produce and pasture-raised chicken donated by a nearby farm. Meals combine old favorites — tacos and homemade pizza — with the exotic: Filipino chicken adobo, Brazilian pumpkin stew, latkes for Hanukkah and Nigerian jollof rice for Kwanzaa. It’s no wonder that families from nearby Santa Cruz fill up many of the seats in the seaside town of...

By Kat Eschner, Illustration: Anuj Shrestha, The New York Times, January 5, 2022 Oregon is legalizing mushrooms. Ketamine can be delivered to your home . People are microdosing LSD to treat pandemic-related anxiety and Wall Street is pouring billions into companies that sell mind-altering drugs. It seems like psychedelics — though mostly still illegal — are everywhere. While the federal government does not recognize a medical use for most of these drugs and says they have potential for...

Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) is excited to announce the addition of a screening of the Mott Haven Documentary at the 5th annual Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference on Thursday, Feb 24, 2022. The screening will include a conversation with JC Hall, LMSW, EXAT a Hip Hop artist and clinical social worker who runs the Hip Hop Therapy Studio program at Mott Haven Community High School, a “second-chance” transfer school in the South Bronx. In 2013, Hall assembled a professional...

Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.

By The HOPE Team, 1/6/2022, positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ As we ring in the New Year, HOPE is looking forward to all our new trainings, workshops, resources, and activities! Keep reading to find out more about upcoming opportunities: to present a workshop at the 2022 HOPE Summit, to become a certified HOPE facilitator, and to join a conversation of HOPE with others in your field. [ Click here to read more .]