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Jade Dass in her garden in Apache Junction, Ariz., in July 2022. Credit... Ash Ponders By Shoshana Walter, The New York Times, June 29, 2023 One morning in the summer of 2020, Jade Dass woke up and vomited. She assumed she was hung over; she’d been depressed lately and sometimes self-medicated with too much wine. But then a woman in her online counseling group suggested that she might be pregnant. Dass looked in the mirror and realized she was probably right. At 26, Dass had spent the...

From a psychological standpoint, loneliness is intrinsically linked with mental health. Credit: Neuroscience News By Neuroscience News Communications, Neuroscience News, July 2, 2023 Summary: The neuroscience and psychology of loneliness have provided fascinating insights into this pervasive issue, revealing its profound effects on our brain and mental health. Research has shown that loneliness is related to unique brain processing patterns and can contribute to various mental health issues,...

By Amy Glover, Photo: Artmarie/Getty Images, Huffington Post, May 7, 2023 Ever experience hearing someone talk about their sixth birthday or the Christmas they had when they were eight and think, wait – how can you remember that? Some of us have a better recollection of our formative years than others. This can be because some of us “lose” those early recollections to sort of free up space – “Having few childhood memories is common. As time passes, your brain has to free up space for new...

A crucifix in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Photo: Shutterstock By John Gallagher, LGBTQ Nation, July 5, 2023 The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to allow a homophobic website designer to discriminate against gay couples because it violated her faith was hardly a surprise. The conservative majority on the Court has made it loud and clear that its role is to fulfill the fantasies of the right. It may draw the line at some of the wilder dreams, like the idea that legislatures can overturn...

Visitors at Summit One Vanderbilt look out at a smoke-shrouded Manhattan as wildfires in Canada continue to blanket the city on June 7, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images) By Neha Pathak, Yale Climate Connections, June 29, 2023 The fondest times of my childhood were the annual burst of flowers each spring. Not so for my kids, who sniffle and sneeze their way through pollen season. With average temperatures growing warmer, trees here in Atlanta are flowering...

One Reason Kids Today Are So Defiant is that they are experts at pushing their parent's buttons. Here is the Top 10 List. Please join me live tomorrow, July 6 at 12 Noon EST for: 10-minute Family Trauma Tools to see how Button Pushing works to enable kids to be defiant as well as other reasons. Just click on this Zoom Link: https://gopll.zoom.us/j/82520409977?pwd=dnNUN25KSmpESThCKzV4VFAwRytFdz09

La Maida Project (LMP) is hosting three upcoming experiential workshops aimed to create a trauma-responsive and ACEs-aware culture in all the communities and settings where you engage. We are inviting the PACEs community to sign up free of charge using the promo code PACEsTogether . LMP is working to address the mental health crisis by healing our connection to self, community, purpose, and the natural world. Our experiential education workshops emphasize the participant's felt experience in...

Graphic from a May 8, 2023 report on ABC News. While news of mass shootings, such as the July 3 shooting deaths of five men in Philadelphia, mirror the rash of shootings in 2022 and dominate media feeds, community gun violence takes more lives and impacts more people in the United States. This week the PACEs Connection podcast History. Culture. Trauma, again focuses on gun violence in America, with a conversation departing from the focus on mass shootings, to instead look at community...

The cabin of John and Priscilla Hemings, who were enslaved at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s plantation in Charlottesville, Va. Credit... Damon Winter/The New York Times By James Bouie, opinion columnist, The New York Times, Tuesday, July 4, 2023 — Read today, the Declaration of Independence is a freedom document. It stands for absolute human equality and represents the highest ideals of the American republic. On July 4, we celebrate it as much as we celebrate independence itself. But as...

Frontiers - Introducing the Neuroplastic Narrative: a non-pathologizing biological foundation for trauma-informed and adverse childhood experience aware approaches - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1103718/full

The Trauma Informed Health Care Education and Research (TIHCER) Collaborative presents: L aurie Leitch, Ph.D. has been a practicing psychotherapist, clinical trainer, consultant, social entrepreneur, and researcher for over 25 years. She is Director of Threshold GlobalWorks ( www.thresholdglobalworks.com ), dedicated to cultivating and amplifying resilience in individuals and within communities, organizations, and systems. Committed to promoting workplaces and communities in which principled...

But the good news is that when we add Positive Childhood Experiences into the conversation, the emotional demand is lessened; hope enters the room.