Mad in America

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It will come from addressing the root causes—childhood trauma and the systems that perpetuate it. Until science fully understands the relationship between trauma and smoking (i.e., People don’t choose their trauma, and many wouldn’t smoke if they didn’t feel they had to. drug use), let’s pause the blame game.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma 110

Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Processing (early childhood) trauma requires space and safety. We ask care providers and policy makers to listen to us and to enter into a dialogue with us about what good, trauma-informed care details. Human experiences cannot be captured in protocols and recovery takes time.

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Childhood trauma 83

Mad in America

MARCH 1, 2024

Each one was desperate for the loving, safe relationship with me and our son of the type that she had never known because of her childhood trauma. She had come out to inform me that a meltdown I was having at that moment was not helping Ka’ryn and Amy feel safe. Each one wanted to be valued and validated for herself.

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Childhood trauma Aging and mental health Construction 112

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. But things shifted — you write that you were confronted with information and experiences that challenged this understanding. It was then turned into TV show.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Psychedelic therapy Childhood trauma 119

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

So the elevator pitch is that anything you can treat through hypnotherapy, you can also treat through lucid dreaming whether it’s working with confidence, working with PTSD or childhood trauma. Without dreaming, we wouldn’t be able to integrate our wounds and we wouldn’t be able to remember new information.

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Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness Mindfulness practices 98

The Art of Healing Trauma

MAY 8, 2020

The Influence of Unseen, Unknown Traumas and Invisible Triggers. Prior to the accidents, I went through sexual trauma. And before that, childhood traumas. I think that when there are years and years of many kinds of trauma, from birth until adulthood, it becomes terribly confusing. For not being trauma-informed.

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Childhood trauma 52

The Art of Healing Trauma

JUNE 20, 2020

This kind of information is very convincing. Cross’s definition of trauma resonates with me: A state of shock in the body and or psyche; it’s a rupture, a bifurcation, a disassembly. I like this reference because it demonstrates real and concrete benefits of maintaining a daily writing practice.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2025

Martin Teicher, a neuroscientist renowned for his work on childhood trauma, has demonstrated how exposure to stress and trauma during critical developmental periods can physically alter the structure and function of the brain. His research was confirmed by CDC-Kaiser Permanente ACE studies involving 17,000 individuals.

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Trauma and the brain Family dynamics Childhood trauma Self-awareness 120

Real Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

That information was as rational as it was profound when I read it the first time and witnessed how the idea was repeatedly violated over the next 50 years. We would all be one big happy Homo sapiens family. I had seen it violated so many times I went back and found the original biology text that I read in the 8 th grade.

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Construction Childhood trauma Education 52

Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Terms like “broken brain,” “childhood trauma,” “unresolved grief,” and “family dysfunction” come to mind. The goal is to make them well-informed. The goal is to disseminate information as widely as possible. Metaphors, in particular, are intriguing.

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Aging and mental health Self-awareness Trauma and the brain Healthcare 140