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With Healhaus Elisa Shankle and Darian Hall Tap into an Underserved Community

By Marquita K. Harris — 2019

In the latest Best & Black Owned, the two owners and long-time friends delve into the inspiration behind the company and what it took to launch.

Read on www.essence.com

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How to Recognize and Cope with Racial Trauma

Racial trauma is a reaction to experiences of racism, including violence or humiliation. You might also hear it referred to as race-based trauma or race-based traumatic stress...Here’s a closer look at what racial trauma involves, and how to find culturally appropriate support.

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Coping with Racial Trauma

While individuals of all racial-ethnic minority groups are at risk of experiencing racial discrimination and racial trauma, Black Americans are especially at risk, as anti-Black racism is individual, systemic, and historical.

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Can Trauma Really Be “Stored” in the Body?

Scientists now have more evidence than ever before revealing the intimate, intertwined relationship between the mind and body.

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The Wisdom Your Body Knows

Scientists are now focusing on the thinking that happens not in your brain but in your gut. You have neurons spread through your innards, and there’s increasing attention on the vagus nerve, which emerges from the brain stem and wanders across the heart, lungs, kidney and gut.

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The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma

Nowhere is this relationship more essential yet more endangered than in our healing from trauma, and no one has provided a more illuminating, sympathetic, and constructive approach to such healing than Boston-based Dutch psychiatrist and pioneering PTSD researcher Bessel van der Kolk.

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Addiction Is a Response to Childhood Suffering: In Depth with Gabor Maté

The Fix Q&A with Dr. Gabor Maté on addiction, the holocaust, the “disease-prone personality” and the pathology of positive thinking.

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Dr. Gabor Maté on Childhood Trauma, the Real Cause of Our Anxiety, and Our 'Insane' Culture

Dr Gabor Maté is a renowned expert in addiction, childhood trauma and mind-body health.

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Why Women Need Fierce Self-Compassion

Compassion isn’t always soft and gentle; sometimes it means being forceful and fierce.

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