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Marin Denning joined Lake Effect's Joy Powers to discuss intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities ahead of his talk at UWM's Trauma in Our Community Conference. On Tuesday, UW-Milwaukee’s ...

A psychiatrist shares her experience working with Native communities and how understanding historical trauma can begin the ...

Matthew Brandon was six years old when he made his way into Chris and Shannon Gardiner's life. The boy was non-verbal and had complex needs, and he had already been moved around a lot in the foster ...

Intergenerational trauma is where the psychological effects of painful events are passed on in families. A psychotherapist shared five signs you might be experiencing intergenerational trauma.

Woven throughout most of this newsletter is the understanding that our past informs our present. It shows up in the choices we make, our relationships, our work. No corner of our lives goes untouched ...

Co-authored by Priscilla Li, BA and Eunice Y. Yuen, MD, PhD In this contentious election year, immigration is the most concerning issue, according to Gallup 2024 monthly surveys. The number of asylum ...

Trauma is an experience so harrowing that it can alter our gene expression — and in some cases, these changes can be passed down to future generations. But if the traumas experienced by our parents, ...

Andrew Kim’s mind raced as he entered the sprawling South African hospital. It was 2017, and Kim, at the time a Northwestern University biological anthropology graduate student, was researching how a ...

When my older son was 2 years old, a fellow mom arranged for our playgroup to visit a local nursing home at Halloween and holiday time. The seniors’ faces lit up upon seeing the children dressed in ...