I’ve had patients who realized they were using their excess weight as a form of protection from the outside world and/or the opposite sex. In childhood, they experienced sexual trauma. Since then, in an attempt to make themselves invisible or undesirable, they purposely—albeit sometimes unconsciously—kept on weight. Naturally, this makes any effort to lose weight in adulthood much more challenging.
By Guest Author, 9/30/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Meet our four new talented students who will be joining us this fall! Suki Lee, Tracy Xin Li, Raymond Graham, and Yixin Li will be working with us on several projects, helping us grow our knowledge and expand our practice. Every one of them brings their own perspective and expertise to our team. Our team is excited to work with them and learn from them! Suki and Yixin will be analyzing data gathered from three surveys with 9,000 parent...
CUMAC’s two-story facility in Northern New Jersey has the look and feel of a standard food bank, with a warehouse, a handful of trucks, a client-choice pantry, and even a small garden. In practice, the operation has a mission that goes much further than giving out food or even addressing the root causes of hunger. In the view of Executive Director Mark Dinglasan, problems related to food insecurity go back — way back — to childhood traumas and the harmful impacts they collectively have on...
One of the most egregious behaviors a parent or other caregiver can do to a child is to abandon them, allowing them to suffer alone. The damages done to the child when grown are significant and should not be ignored. In this article, we shall examine together what childhood abandonment is, how it affects adults, and ways to mitigate the power it has over our lives. What is Abandonment? All children are entirely dependent upon parents or caregivers for their safety in their environment. When...
By Debra Kamin, The New York Times, September 29, 2021 Pedro García Hernández, 48, is a carpenter in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco, a rainforest-shrouded region of the country where about half of the residents live below the poverty line. He ekes out a living making about 2,500 pesos ($125.17) a month from a tiny workspace inside the home he shares with his wife, Patrona, and their daughter, Yareli. The home has dirt floors, and during Tabasco’s long rainy season, it’s prone to...
By David Zipper, Bloomberg CityLab, September 28, 2021 Twelve lanes of Interstate 35 slice through the heart of the city of Austin. But that doesn’t appear to be enough: The highway is often choked with truck and commuter traffic, which is only thickening as the regional population balloons . A recent study named Austin’s section of I-35 the worst bottleneck in Texas. The Texas Department of Transportation, known as TxDOT, says it knows what to do: Widen the freeway. The agency proposes...
By Leyland Cecco, The Guardian, September 29, 2021 A federal court in Canada has paved they way for billions in compensation to First Nations children who suffered discrimination in the welfare system, after a judge dismissed a pair of legal challenges by the government. Two years ago , the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the federal government had “wilfully and recklessly” discriminated against Indigenous children living on reserves by failing to properly fund child and family...
By David A. Graham, The Atlantic, September 29, 2021 A historic rise in homicides in 2020—and continued bloodshed in 2021—has incited fears that after years of plummeting crime rates, the U.S. could be headed back to the bad old days, when a crime wave gripped the country from the 1970s to the 1990s. But the FBI’s “Uniform Crime Report” for 2020, released Monday , suggests something stranger: Perhaps America is in the midst of what is specifically a violence wave, not a broad crime wave.
By Tonya Mosley, National Public Radio, September 29, 2021 In 2017, The New York Times published a story chronicling decades of sexual harassment abuse against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Less than three years later, a Manhattan jury found Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault. Activist Tarana Burke , the founder of the "Me Too" movement, sees a stark contrast in the timeline of Weinstein's case and that of R&B singer R. Kelly , who dodged accusations for more than 25...
You are invited to take an 8-minute survey to help the my PATH Partnership at USF plan research to address trauma in primary care. Who is myPATH? myPATH is a patient-centered Partnership Addressing Trauma and Healing. We are a diverse group of individuals with lived experience of trauma, providers, administrators, and researchers who are working together to plan and do research on interventions that will help primary care patients who have experienced traumatic events to improve their...
Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows aims to help survivors of ACEs and toxic stress by giving them a medium through which to explore their experiences, particularly their struggles with reading and academic work.
The resources provided were created for ethical standards, however , whether you work under ethical standards or not, let me explain some of how what is available benefits you. Ethical self-care , provides a foundation and a pragmatic framework for the following: Are we doing the best we personally and as our field(s), can? Specific strategies for enhancing awareness of and minimizing ways in which we may be inadvertently contributing harm to ourselves or others Understanding how we are...
Summer 2021 Edition of IMPACT Newsletter The Summer issue of IMPACT is filled with examples of NCTSN commitment. You'll read about Dr. Ellen Gerrity and her 18 years of service as the Network's Senior Policy Advisor, and the efforts of Affiliate member Nancy Fitzgerald to focus on teachers and students. In the Muscogee Nation, a family training in culturally sensitive Wellbriety concepts was a first; and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America adapted to the pandemic to keep their kids and...
By Ben Schachtman, WHQR, September 24, 2021 On the latest edition of The Newsroom, an in-depth conversation with District Attorney Ben David and Chief District Court Judge Jay Corpening. We discuss changing philosophical approaches to juvenile justice and changes to North Carolina's laws — plus, what could be in store now that New Hanover County has agreed to tap $350 million in hospital sale funds. On Monday, August 30, gunshots rang out in a crowded hallway at New Hanover High School. One...
By Woodger Faugus, Gen, September 28, 2021 Since mid-September 2021, roughly 15,000 would-be refugees and asylees, mostly Haitians, had reached American soil, in Del Rio, Texas , after having risked their lives, and abandoned their livelihoods, to flee violence and discrimination . To date, almost 4,000 Haitians, some of them children with “non-Haitian passports,” have coped with forcible returns to Haiti, and about 8,000 went back to Mexico “ voluntarily .” Many of the remaining people are...