Below are the best articles we could find on Collective Trauma and trauma healing.
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Resmaa Menakem spoke to Good Day LA's Michaela Pereira to discuss racialized trauma on Dec. 11.
Despite systems of oppression harming us, it’s imperative that we make space for ourselves to heal. We must begin, today, with ourselves, to rest so we can flourish.
Here’s what racial trauma is, and why it’s more common than you would expect.
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Through this treatment plan, the patient was able to “reconceptualize her trauma” and “was able to move through difficult memories and emotions rather than letting them consume her,” explained U of O associate professor, Monnica Williams.
Sebastian Junger’s book Tribe looks at soldiers returning home from war. He tells NPR’s Scott Simon that veterans often don’t feel like they belong to the society they fought for.
It’s important to keep up with self-care for long-term, sustainable social activism.
Like most people of color in the United States, psychotherapist and researcher Monnica Williams has experienced myriad forms of racism. Early in her career, understanding its effects on her mind and body motivated her to help clients address their own racial trauma in therapy.
In American Indian communities, there is a well-developed discourse that runs parallel to the discourse of mental health.
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.
A growing school of psychologists believe the trauma of the climate crisis is a key barrier to change in that it paralyzes people into inaction.
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