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Social Capital: The SNOVID Underdog

How We Survive and Thrive: Thoughts from a Trauma Therapist Humans aren’t necessarily the most capable species. In fact, we are quite vulnerable individually. We

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Disentangling Love from Domestic Violence

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and this love letter has been brewing for a long time. About 4 years or so, actually. A Disclaimer

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Intergenerational Trauma: Addressing the Unresolved Trauma of Our Ancestors

Trigger warnings: racism, colonization, white supremacy, murder, enslavement, violence I’ve been thinking a lot lately about intergenerational trauma. The way our experiences affect our interpersonal

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Safe Escape

Ya’ll. I am going to level with you. Life is really hard right now. Routinely, I find myself saying there are no easy answers. Day

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Anger as a Flag for Boundaries

Whether it’s frustration, anger, or what you’d call rage, it’s an emotion that’s tied to our fight response. The wisdom of our fight response shows

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Mental Health Awareness Month 2020

We are nearing the end of Mental Health Awareness Month, and I want to know — how did mental health get on your radar? For

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F*ck Diet Culture

Hello, 2020!! Right now I am seeing more ads on weight loss, nutrition and fitness than I have all year (perhaps, in some part because

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Orienting Toward The Good

What you appreciate, appreciates. When we experience chronic stress or trauma one of the things that happens in our body is that we orient toward

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Legacy of Trauma: It Didn’t Start With You

We repeat what we do not heal. Trauma is like a legacy. Any trauma that happens now is a reflection of another hurt that happened

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Trauma Informed as a Way of Being

There’s a lot of talk about being trauma informed. And trainings. I’ve taken a lot of them. By all means, a structured way to

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Stress + The 3 Sisters of Your Brain

For better or for worse, when we get stressed out so many of the activities we associate with being human are out of reach. We

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Cotton Candy Could be the Trigger

I’ve been working in the domestic and sexual violence field formally for about 6 years. However, my experience with such things spans a lot longer