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April 2020

Workplace Mindfulness Summit: Boost Resilience & Foster Mental Well-being at Work with Workplace Mindfulness [mindfulleader.org]

From Mindful Leader, April 27, 2020 Our collective mental well-being is at great risk. We've created the Workplace Mindfulness Summit , free and online, to help leaders and organizations respond and to help boost resilience and foster mental well-being at work with mindfulness. For the first time ever, Mindful Leader is assembling the top sessions from our online and in-person events to create the most comprehensive resource available on growing workplace mindfulness programs. This includes...

Panel Discussion: Setting Up Drive Thru Support in Your Community - The Lucy Booth

The longer the COVID-Crisis Continues with lock downs for families and individuals the greater the stress and greater the risk. In Livingston, MT our MH community is experimenting with the idea of Drive Thru Support Counseling. We are taking inspiration from the Peanuts character Lucy who had a unique Drive Thru idea. Join us in this panel discussion as together we discuss replicating this idea for your community. Date/Time: May 1, 2020 09:00 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada) Register here.

How Exercise Is Beneficial For Health?

Most of us are looking for answers on how exercise is beneficial for health. We want to look after our health, to be fit and healthy, but sometimes we fail to make the right decisions. According to studies conducted, those who do not take care of their health suffer from illnesses, and even a number of deaths, as compared to healthy people. And you may wonder why. The unhealthy lifestyle of most people has affected their bodies. And a number of diseases and other conditions were also...

Guidance for Teachers and Counselors to Help Kids at Risk at Home

People are beginning to be aware that one result of the increased stress around COVID-19 is the tragic fact that child abuse and neglect is increasing, but the safety net provided by schools is no longer in place. Teachers and counselors can continue to be a hero to students in this time of crisis, and can help mitigate the negative impact of traumatic events and stress. Caregivers might not be able to do it alone. We (Dr. Rachel Gilgoff, a child abuse pediatrician and trauma expert, and...

Fearing Coronavirus, Many Rural Black Women Avoid Hospitals to Give Birth at Home (PEW TRUST)

By April Simpson, April 18, 2020, PEW Trust Black women are two to three times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy than white women, regardless of income or education. Black midwives could be part of the solution, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, but restrictions on midwifery make it difficult to practice in many states. Pregnant women in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi have been calling nonstop to CHOICES Midwifery Practice in Memphis, but the center is...

The implicit bias of, “Mental Illness” and “mentally ill”, a lexicon of hurt.

How can we heal from the implicit bias of “ Mental Illness ” and “ mentally ill ”? I hear these words and it sounds like fingernails scraping down the chalkboard. “ The stain of dehumanization colors the mind, body and spirit and it is not so easily washed away.” - Michael Skinner Recently I read a blog post at the ACEsConnection website, “Erasing My ACES” by Sirena Wheeler. It was posted on April, 19, 2020. It struck a chord with me, many in fact and it put me on a spiral down memory lane.

Join us for Trauma Informed Care Training!

We have two upcoming live webinars on Trauma Informed Care designed to help YOU implement trauma informed care! Join us This introductory level course is essential for anyone who works with the public. Participants will learn what trauma is, understand its possible effects, recognize the signs, and learn how to respond appropriately. Ever timely, due to the increased impact of trauma our society is facing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this live webinar will help you support healing...

Trends in the Incidence and Lethality of Suicidal Acts in the United States, 2006 to 2015 [jamanetwork.com]

By Jing Wang, Steven A. Summer, and Thomas R. Simon, JAMA Psychiatry, April 22, 2020 Key Points Question Are increases in suicide rates associated with more suicidal acts, suicidal acts becoming more lethal, or a combination of both? Findings In this cross-sectional study based on national representative data of 1 222 419 suicidal acts, increased suicide rates were associated with an increase in both incidence rates and lethality of suicidal acts from 2006 to 2015. In subgroup analyses,...

Perspective | Walking the Resilience Road: From Overwhelmed to Compassion-in-Action [ednc.org]

By Elizabeth DeKonty, April 14 2020 When asked what she is struggling with the most right now, first grade teacher Katherine Semenek focused not only on her students’ academic needs, but their basic needs to feel emotionally and physically safe and supported during this difficult time. We know she is not alone in her concerns as teachers all across our state, and our country, are stuck at home wondering if their students are safe, being fed, and being cared for after an abrupt closing of...

Kathryn Keller Is an Unorthodox Pioneer in Religious Trauma Therapy [dallasobserver.com]

By Eva Raggio, April 23, 2020 Thanks to Netflix series Unorthodox, religious trauma is a topic that’s fresh on people’s minds, even if we haven't identified the show's takeaway message in that exact term. The drama details a young bride's life and subsequent escape from a deeply orthodox Hasidic community in Brooklyn. The show became a hit in part for its main character’s gripping story arc — based on a true tale — and because of the profound interest in the curiously foreign ways of the...

Navajo Nation, hit hard by COVID-19, comes together to protect its most vulnerable [pbs.org]

By Stephanie Sy, Lena L Jackson, and Casey Kuhn, PBS News Hour April 24, 2020 COVID-19 is ripping through the Navajo Nation, infecting and killing people at rates that are above U.S. averages. Located across three states, the Navajo population is already vulnerable, with a high prevalence of underlying disease, a lack of infrastructure and limited access to care and supplies. Stephanie Sy reports on how the Navajo community has taken on the challenge of caring for its own. Read the Full...

The Healing Place Podcast: Barbara Rubel, MA, BCETS, D.A.A.E.T.S. - How to Help Suicide Loss Survivors & the Traumatic Impact of Suicide

Barbara Rubel is a suicide loss survivor and leading thanatologist. Thanatology is the scientific study of death. As a thanatologist, Barbara Rubel specializes in suicide loss survivor grief and educating professionals about traumatic loss. The third updated and revised edition of her book, But I Didn’t Say Goodbye: Helping families after a suicide, just launched on Amazon.

The Emptiness You Feel is Trying to Tell You Something

I read a short story last week that was about emptiness and love. That funny thing that happens sometimes, happened, and three different people wrote to me within about 24 hours about… emptiness and love. They were feeling -- and I think a lot of us are feeling it -- a harsh, empty, loveless feeling that keeps swooping into their consciousness during this quarantined period, sounding the alarm that something HUGE is missing from our lives. One woman even said “I know you’ll think I’m crazy...

Video: Bringing the Power of Optimism and Play to Children who Have Endured Trauma & Adverse Experiences

By Trauma Informed Parent Steve Gross is a clinical social worker and a pioneer in the field of using playful engagement and relationships to overcome the devastating impact of early childhood trauma. He is the founder and Chief Playmaker of Life is Good Playmakers; a foundation that works to "harness the power of optimism to create healing, life changing relationships for kids in need." For more information, visit: h ttps://www.lifeisgood.com/kidsfoundation/about-playmakers.html

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