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Are You Experiencing Racial Trauma? If You’re a BIPOC, Most Likely.

By Austa Somvichian-Clausen — 2020

Here’s what racial trauma is, and why it’s more common than you would expect.

Read on thehill.com

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Elisa Shankle Is Encouraging Her Community to Be Brave and Heal

“Vulnerability is scary. I associate bravery with vulnerability because it takes bravery to be vulnerable,” the Brooklyn wellness expert says.

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Julia Craven
2019
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How the Body Keeps the Score: An Interview with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

In his book “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma,” van der Kolk reveals how trauma rearranges the brain’s wiring, including areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust.

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Isabel Pastor Guzman
2019
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New Ways of Treating Trauma: Try Some Yoga

When a person experiences traumatic events, the aftermath can be extremely debilitating. Trauma not only affects the mind, but can have lifelong effects on the body.

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Jeremy Hobson
2015
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Why You Should Write a Letter to Yourself Tonight

Most of us have poured out our hearts in angry, accusatory, plaintive, or sad letters after people have betrayed or abandoned us. Doing so almost always makes us feel better, even if we never send them.

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Bessel van der Kolk
2014
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How to Rewire Your Traumatized Brain

“The Body Keeps the Score” hinges on the idea that trauma is stored in the body and that, for therapy to be effective, it needs to take the physiological changes that occur into account.

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Concepción de León
2018
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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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Maria Popova
2016
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Why I Have Come to Support Defunding the Police

The last few weeks have made it impossible to hide from the truth that Black and white people have fundamentally different experiences with law enforcement in this country.

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Sharon Brous
2020
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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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John Lavitt
2016
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How Dealing with Past Trauma May Be the Key to Breaking Addiction

Opening up to past trauma is difficult, but self-awareness is key to addressing issues that leave us vulnerable.

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Joanna Moorhead
2018
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Note to Colleagues: Please Stop Saying Post Traumatic Stress Is Incurable

You can recover from posttraumatic stress. Certainly, you can significantly reduce—not just manage—its symptoms. But—and here’s the thing—not with traditional treatment.

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Belleruth Naparstek
2010
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