Today we are bombarded with messages telling us that dieting, and exercise, are good for us and will make us live longer. While there is no denying that this is true when done in moderation to improve health, what happens when something goes wrong and the drive to be healthy becomes something else altogether?
Hi folks, April is National Child Abuse, Sexual Assault Awareness and Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Month. This is a song of mine I wrote many years ago to all the survivors of childhood abuse-past and present. You deserve healing and support. Take care, Michael. "Brush Away Your Tears" - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SpYYc6tl4s&t=4s The song was also used in the film documentary - Boys & Men Healing Healing From Child Sexual Abuse -...
One secret to achieving more: Finding time to do nothing. In our efforts to squeeze every second from the day, it seems counterintuitive to watch a pot of coffee boil or gaze out the window. But your brain uses those free periods for important cleanup work, neuroscience research indicates. And during the pandemic, as the boundaries between work and home have blurred , it has become harder to create mental breaks. Even brief timeouts help the brain reinforce long-term learning and...
By Dana Goldstein, The New York Times, April 8, 2021 Over the past year, Deprece Bonilla, a mother of five in Oakland, Calif., has gotten creative about helping her children thrive in a world largely mediated by screens. She signed them up for online phonics tutoring and virtual martial arts lessons. If they are distracted inside the family’s duplex, she grabs snacks and goes with the children into the car, saying they cannot come out until their homework is done. She has sometimes spent...
By The Annie E. Casey Foundation, March 26, 2021 A survey by the Annie E. Casey Foundation of youth justice agencies finds the population of Black youth in juvenile detention on Feb. 1, 2021, reached a pandemic high, while that of white youth was the second lowest recorded in more than a year. The experiences between Black and white youth diverged the most when it came to the pace at which they were released from detention. Black youth stayed longer in detention than their white peers — and...
By Walker Bragman, The Daily Poster, April 8, 2021 Jessica was in her early 30s when she decided to pursue her MBA. She enrolled full-time at Columbia University after the school offered her a scholarship. To help with the rest of her tuition, Jessica relied on $72,000 in loans. Most were federal, but one was private through Wells Fargo. That was nearly 25 years ago. After deferring her payments and then entering into an income-driven repayment plan a decade ago, she has recently begun...
By Brentin Mock, Bloomberg CityLab + Equality, April 9, 2021 On Tuesday, Tishaura Jones became the first Black woman elected mayor of St. Louis, taking over the city during a time of anxiety around the Covid-19 pandemic, police violence, worsening racial disparities and a wave of violent crime. She joins a growing list of Black women who’ve taken over U.S. cities as mayors in recent years, including Keisha Lance Bottoms in Atlanta, LaToya Cantrell in New Orleans, London Breed in San...
By Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, May 2021 WHEN DAVID DORADO ROMO was a boy growing up in El Paso, Texas, his great-aunt Adela told him about the day the U.S. Border Patrol melted her favorite shoes. Romo’s aunt was Mexican and had a visa that allowed her to commute into South Texas for her job as a maid. Every week she had to report to a Border Patrol station, in accordance with a program that ran from 1917 into the 1930s requiring most Mexican immigrants to bathe in government offices...
By DomesticShelters.org, April 2021 About the Event Integrate the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs) in everything. This webinar will address how the science of PACEs is being integrated into the family court system, domestic violence shelters, batterer intervention courses and community PACEs initiatives. Contact 469-619-0538 info@domesticshelters.org Website (register here) https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6716179064744/WN_hNlk-R5sTnOn9mqwklBcAg [ Please...
Fatigue comes in many shapes and sizes, especially these days. It is common with and after Covid, and for Covid long haulers. Fatigue is also a common symptom for many people with chronic illnesses and autoimmune diseases. It affects 4 out of 5 people with fibromyalgia and is the hallmark of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), which is the disabling chronic illness I've had for over 20 years and that I've been gradually improving from using trauma perspectives and approaches. Fatigue is also...
None were printed and none were shipped. These are some of the requests that came in this week for sets of our parenting tips bumper stickers. We have requests from across the U.S. and Canada for hundreds of sets of the stickers. Tragically, the requests are just sitting in my inbox because we haven't the funds to print and ship them. This is a colossal lost opportunity to promote positive childhood experiences and prevent adverse childhood experiences! It's so frustrating to receive these...
Reimagining Resilience 1: Using a Trauma Lens Thurs, Apr 15, 22 & 29 4:00-5:15 pm PDT. Three 75-minute sessions. In addition there are short videos that will be sent to registrants before each class. Register by Wed April 14 in order to receive pre-class materials. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/144484506047 Clock hours are available. $95. The program cost includes access to the workshop recording for two months, the pre-class videos, a course workbook, and connection to peers who share...
Comedian Jerry Lewis has said that Allen Klein is “a noble and vital force watching over the human condition.” Klein (aka “Mr. Jollytologist”® and “The Ambassador of Light”) shows audiences worldwide how to use humor and positivity to deal with life’s not-so-funny stuff. He is an award-winning professional speaker, a TEDx presenter, and author of 30-plus books.
Join ASTHO on April 21, 2021 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET for a national convening of state and territorial health officials with local and federal partners on Prioritizing Equity in Public Health. This virtual meeting will provide a forum for state and territorial health practitioners to learn about emergent public health issues and apply evidence-based and promising practices to address structural racism and reduce racial and ethnic disparities. The summit will feature keynote presentations...
By Jill Suttie, Greater Good Magazine, March 23, 2021 When parents take their children to a pediatrician for a wellness check, they expect to get reports on their children’s healthy development—if they’re growing properly, eating and sleeping well, or in need of vaccines. They probably don’t expect to get a prescription for kindness. But at Senders Pediatrics, a private practice in Cleveland, Ohio, and one of the Greater Good Science Center’s 16 Parenting Initiative grantees, this is exactly...