By Deborah J. Cohan — 2017
Family violence is a dynamic process, not an event, that takes varying shapes and forms, often over years, and it can be lodged in caregiving. Caregiving, also a process and not an event, can be lodged in a context of family violence.
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Today’s climate activists are driven by environmental worries that are increasingly more urgent, and which feel more personal.
Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.
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Eso es para locos. Esta generación... siempre inventando. These are the words I’d hear anytime I mentioned therapy or mental health growing up.
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Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.
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