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Trauma and the Brain – Video
My wife had the opportunity to attend some training on being trauma-informed at the university where she works. As part of the training, they shared this video about the effects trauma can have on the brain. She shared it with me and now I’m sharing it with you because I think it’s really important to understand this if you’ve experienced trauma or know someone who has. (Which is really just another way of saying, everyone.)
Shared Links (weekly) May 7, 2023
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America has a loneliness epidemic. Here are 6 steps to address it
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Teen girls crisis: It’s beyond social media– blaming social media lets too many other people off the hook for the sexual harassment, societal pressure, political threats, and everything else teenage girls have to deal with.
Sharing – “Tetris for Trauma” Viral Twitter Thread: A Master Class in Misleading Psych Research
Again, as Peter goes on to describe the issue is not that people might suddenly play some Tetris when dealing with trauma. That’s probably not going to harm them much, it’s that we, as a society, will come to expect that is the “magic pill” to help everyone deal with trauma and start dismissing it as something that’s easy to fix with some Tetris when it’s much, much more complicated than that. We shouldn’t lose sight of that fact.
Link – How to Feel Safe in the World After Abuse
I liked what Arien has to say in this video, because this is one of the largest hurdles survivors run in to when it comes to healing from abuse, putting it in the proper perspective. “Abuse strips us of the ability to feel safe in this world. We were shown the darkest sides of humanity,…
