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Training Your Brain To Improve Bodily Function-Pete Van Deusen Register now for todays webinar that starts at 10:00am PST. https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/7469734954253362946 When you or your clients face issues from seizures to poor sleep, appetite/digestions, pain, including migraines, panic attacks, blood pressure, stress, poor immune function and more, you probably don't think of these as being related to the patterns in your brain. Spend two hours in this webinar to understand the...

By Tonia Gillen, Nursing Review, September 24, 2019 The usual connotation of an ‘ace’ is positive. For a card player the ace of spades is traditionally the highest and most valued card in the pack. According to the urban dictionary the term ace describes a person whom you like, often a self-assured confident person, and the term loosely translates as ‘excellent’ or ‘very good’. When ace is used as an adjective, the meaning is usually that of ‘cool’ or ‘trendy’. However, there is another...

By Monica Humphries, Nationswell, September 24, 2019 A school bus is typically full of eager, excited kids. But for the Flood family, a school bus is home. It’s a place full of the essentials: food, hot water, clothes and a place to rest. During the summer of 2018, David Flood, who was working as a substitute teacher and studying for his master’s, had to quit his job. He needed to take care of his three kids and his wife, Jennifer Flood, who was too sick to work. Rent payments, student loans...

By Brian Malter, Center for Health Journalism, September, 18, 2019 In a few days our nation’s children will return to school --- some already have. They will be greeted with the usual staples of education in America: new classes and teachers, the latest and trendiest technology and school supplies followed shortly by relentless test taking. It is probable they will also be met with more recent school staples: active shooter drills and armed guards or police monitoring their hallways. The...

In this article and the next several articles (and the corresponding videos) I'll be talking about one of the biggest, most common adult symptoms of childhood trauma, and that’s ISOLATION. In the three years I’ve been writing about Complex PTSD and Childhood PTSD, I've received thousands of YouTube/Facebook comments and messages from people who tell me how much they’re suffering with loneliness, isolation and feeling cut off from people in their lives. It's not just people with trauma. Lots...

I have struggled a ton with various mental issues in my life, between depression and years of being a drug addict I have really beaten myself up when there is nothing going on and I can safely say it's the absolute worst feeling in the world. By gods grace, I am now almost 5 years sober but I still deal with the ups and downs that depression can provide. Another thing I suffer from is emotional eating and overeating . I eat to feel better now that I can no longer use drugs or alcohol to feel...

By Lars Almquist and Sarah C. Walker, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, September 20, 2019 Public health experts recognize that as little as 10-20% of our individual health may be attributed to treatments received from the health care system. Meanwhile, the contexts in which we live and our health behaviors have the greatest influence over our health outcomes. These factors are commonly referred to as social determinants of health, and they have a tremendous impact on the short- and...

By Maureen O'Hagan, Kaiser Health News, September 23, 2019 On Kimberly Repp’s office wall is a sign in Latin: Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae. This is a place where the dead delight in helping the living. For medical examiners, it’s a mission. Their job is to investigate deaths and learn from them, for the benefit of us all. Repp, however, isn’t a medical examiner; she’s a Ph.D. microbiologist. And as the Washington County epidemiologist, she was most accustomed to studying...

By Catherine Cheney, The New York Times, September 24, 2019 After losing his best friend to suicide, Taylor Harrison, then 18, was looking for ways to honor the memory of his friend, deal with his own grief, and help others going through a hard time. He decided to volunteer at Lines for Life, a nonprofit crisis-line organization in Portland, Oregon. Just a few months into his time there, Mr. Harrison took a call from a teenager who was thinking about walking in front of the next train. “It...

Sitting in Lansing, Michigan in the capitol building last Wednesday (9/18/19) I wiped the tears from eyes as I listened. Let me back up a bit. I didn’t plan to become the full-time guardian for my three-year-old grandson, I don’t expect any praise, compensation, or reward. However, when someone notices and recognizes the effort Paul and I have made, the empty nest plans we’ve shelved, the commitment we’ve made it’s like when I ran cross country in high school and heard the unexpected cheer...

ITRC issues Call to Action for all mental health, public health, education, social justice, climate, and other leaders to rapidly build psychological and psycho-social-spiritual-- or transformational--resilience to prevent widespread climate traumas WE ASK ALL ACEs CONNECTION MEMBERS TO ENDORSE THE ITRC CALL TO ACTION! Attached is the complete Call to Action to Build Human Resilience for Climate Traumas or find it at the ITRC website: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/ Individuals...

“A trauma-informed, culturally responsive lens must be a part of everything we do.” This statement by Laura Norton-Cruz, Director of the Alaska Resilience Initiative, sums up the key message of last week’s Senate Afterschool Caucus briefing for Congressional staff which focused on “Afterschool Programs and a Trauma-Informed Approach.” On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the Senate Afterschool Caucus* — in partnership with the Afterschool Alliance, Alaska Children’s Trust – Alaska Afterschool Network,...