Trauma doesn't just affect the person who originally experienced it. It can also be passed down to their children and grandchildren.
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The millennial generation or so-called 'generation why' is a game-changer generation. However, to get to the place where the game is changed, the existing rules of the game had to have proved to be detrimental.
The indigenous existence in Western and American culture is narrowly viewed and accepted with little to no input from actual Indigenous people.
2020 brought old and new pains to the surface. These losses are compounded because we don’t know how to grieve. Unprocessed grief becomes trauma and trauma leads to more grief in a vicious circle that’s been going on for hundreds of years.
A survivor of the Pol Pot's death squads teaches an American to handle depression.
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Studies done on Jewish holocaust survivors show trauma is passed down from generation to generation through DNA. Over hundreds of years of slavery, is it plausible Black people have that traumatic experience encoded in their DNA?
This week’s episode of Next Question with Katie Couric is dedicated to acknowledging the individual traumas and shared trauma of this year and learning how we can begin to heal.
New York Times Best Selling writer, author of "My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies", Resmaa Menakem joins the chat.
We see trauma when it happens, when there is a war or when there is an atrocity, and similar things. But there is a much bigger systemic aspect, we have to become aware of. There are many thousands of ways how trauma has fine fibers in many aspects of our lives.
In this memorable conversation from SAND 18, Peter Levine, the father of trauma therapy work, and Thomas Hübl, a spiritual teacher known for his work integrating healing of collective trauma, discuss the relationship between healing trauma and spiritual growth.
Alzo Slade participates in an “Emotional Emancipation Circle,” an Afrocentric support group created by the Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists. It’s a safe space for Black people to share personal experiences with racism and to process racial trauma.