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Special Transforming Trauma Podcast: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy During the COVID-19 Pandemic with Dr. Heller and Brad Kammer In this special episode of Transforming Trauma , host Sarah Buino is joined by Dr. Laurence Heller, creator of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), and Brad Kammer, NARM Training Director and Senior Faculty. As we face the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the trio reflects on how to come together in community to support each other in times of crisis. Faced...

I just posted the PDF of a PowerPoint I'm doing for clinical staff at my agency called Trauma Treatment During the Coronavirus Pandemic (it's in the Files section). Please feel free to share if you find it useful.

The Healing Place Podcast has been conducting Facebook LIVE interviews with previous podcast guests (several of whom are ACEs Connection members). I will continue to host the conversations over the next few weeks as a free resource available to those looking for coping strategies, calming skills, and a sense of connection and grounding during this unprecedented time in our world. #PandemicSelfCare

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This is a time of incredible stress, uncertainty and change across the world. Unlike many stressful experiences, we don’t know when the impact of the Covid-19 will ease so that life can return to something closer to normal. We just know that our lives have been impacted in ways we could not have anticipated only a few months ago. Here I want to provide you a little something that might help you get through this. When It’s Too Much Toolkit A few years ago in response to the fires in Sonoma...

We have the best community. And it feels like a community even more right now when things are scary, threatening, and uncertain. Yesterday, Jondi Whitis shared an amazing resource yesterday, by way of a comment, that's great for parents, survivors, providers, and families (all of us). I am making it a blog post in case others missed it or are overwhelmed, as I have been, by sifting through the information coming at us. The home page lets you easily find practices for calming. Here's one...

By Terry Gross, National Public Radio, March 24, 2020 Apocalyptic novelist Max Brooks is something of an expert on planning for pandemics and other disasters. The author, whose books include World War Z , Germ Warfare and the forthcoming Devolution , has toured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has reviewed government response plans related to various emergency situations — all in the course of research. "We have a network in place that we as taxpayers have been funding to...

By Bloomwork, PsychCentral, March 18, 2020 Linda : James W. Pennebaker is a social psychologist, and a Centennial Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin , where he studies the health consequences of secrets. A pioneer of writing therapy , he has researched the link between language and recovering from trauma and been “recognized by the American Psychological Association as one of the top researchers on trauma, disclosure, and health. In his book, Opening...

By Ryan White, Center for Health Journalism, March 18, 2020 Think of the brain, honed by millennia of evolution, as a powerful predictive machine, constantly scanning the horizon for signs of what’s to come. Like an eager young scout, the brain relishes the state of readiness. But what happens when that future is shrouded in a thick fog of uncertainty? Or worse, when that veil conceals real threats to our safety and well-being that exceed our control? That’s essentially the situation we all...

By Matt Apuzzo and Monika Pronczuk, The New York Times, March 23, 2020 In a Queens apartment, a laid-off busboy has no idea if he will make next month’s rent or feed his family. An out-of-work waitress in Amsterdam, though, can count on the government to cover 90 percent of her wages. As a Malaysian florist anxiously burns through her savings, cafe owners in Brussels receive about $4,300 to make up for lost revenue. Weeks of layoffs and lockdowns have made clear that poor and working-class...

Resilient Communities Wisconsin offers this guide which "serves as a starting place to help teams navigate collaborative dialogue and actions to support the integration of trauma-informed practices, procedures and policies. Through a reflective process, teams can identify and reinforce strategies and interventions that are working well, while also identifying opportunities for improvement or change." There are 3 sections: 1. Building Your Foundation 2. Integrating Trauma-Informed Practices,...

For those who love the Trauma Therapist Podcast with Guy MacPherson, as much as I do, here are the three videos in his series on Managing in the Midst of COVID-19. Click each of their names to go to that video interview. Janina Fisher Peter Levine Dr. Bruce Perry