Have you ever wondered why your family functions the way it does? Or why certain behaviors are accepted while others are frowned upon? Perhaps there’s a double standard, where some actions are allowed ...
I invite you to pause for a moment and look around you. Notice the way our mothers flinch at sudden sounds, the way fathers avoid speaking about their own painful childhoods. Now, look closer at your ...
We know now that newborns don’t enter into the world with a clean slate. Their emotional history begins even before they are conceived. All the eggs a woman will carry form in her ovaries while she is ...
Do we inherit the effects of trauma physically from past generations? Do parents' experiences of war, ethnic persecution, cultural oppression, state or domestic abuse have lasting effects, manifested ...
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3- Good health and wellbeing. Trauma is often understood as an individual psychological event, yet its roots and repercussions are ...
There is a lot being written these days on post-traumatic growth (PTG) and resilience. As a trauma therapist and scholar on trauma responses, I follow these with Google alerts and at least once a week ...