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What Is Generational Trauma? Here’s How Experts Explain It

By Claire Gillespie — 2020

Experts are learning more about who is vulnerable to it, and how it manifests in families and communities.

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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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Stephanie Eckelkamp
2019
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Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Treat PTSD Caused by Racism, Discrimination: Researchers

Williams is the co-lead author of a recent retrospective study that found those who tried doses of psilocybin (more commonly known as magic mushrooms), LSD, or MDMA (the pure substance found in Ecstasy or Molly) reported a decrease in trauma symptoms, depression and anxiety after 30 days.

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Avis Favaro, Elizabeth St. Philip, Solarina Ho
2021
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Veterans Use Creative Forces to Heal Invisible Wounds of War

How music and art therapies can help military service members.

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Richard Sima
2021
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Virtual Reality Therapy Plunges Patients Back Into Trauma. Here Is Why Some Swear by It.

An experimental treatment seems poised to address a dire mental health crisis.

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Dani Blum
2021
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Launching a Revolution

As California’s first surgeon general, Nadine Burke Harris, MPH ’02, is carrying out the visionary agenda she has brought to medical care: finding the roots of disease in childhood adversity and treating the long-term consequences.

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Madeline Drexler
2020
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How to Reduce the Impact of Childhood Trauma

Children who experience adversity tend to have health problems later in life. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains why—and how we can help heal those wounds.

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Jeremy Adam Smith
2018
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How Weight Lifting Helped One Writer Work Through Her PTSD

Personal trainer and former competitive weight lifter Laura Khoudari discusses her research and her experience with strength training as an embodied movement practice that has helped her heal from her own trauma and help other trauma survivors.

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Maggie Mertens
2021
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Trauma from Slavery Can Actually Be Passed Down Through Your Genes

You can get PTSD from your ancestors.

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Lincoln Anthony Blades
2016
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How to Tell if You Have Normal Post-Traumatic Stress or Something More Serious

Both mental health conditions can happen after you’ve experienced trauma, but there’s a big difference between them.

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Barbara Brody
2018
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‘It Never Stops Shaping You’: The Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse – And How to Survive It

Child sexual abuse is frighteningly common and hugely damaging. But a new project is collecting survivors’ stories – and revealing what is needed to heal

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Gabby Hinsliff
2018
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