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April 2021

Adversities. Resilience. Gratitude.

Adversity can be a powerful word especially when you are a Trauma Counsellor aware of ACEs. This revolutionary study on the impact of our Adverse Childhood Experiences has provided us with so many answers as to why we are the way we are. At least it did for me and the people I work with every day. It has also raised many important questions. One being, how can one build resilience through past adversities? How did I do it? Having done the ACE test and getting a maximum score of 10 on it, I...

The Baby's Experience of Adversity and Resilience

I have been writing about the baby's experience for many years. After the book by Brene Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead came out, I decided that I wanted to be one of the people she wrote about who lived whole-hearted lives. She describes them as people who would not sit by and simply watch life go by, but those who were willing to enter into the arena and dare greatly, erring, getting dirty and fully engaging in life.

Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Bruce Perry team up to talk trauma, resilience, healing in new book

A little more than three years ago, Oprah Winfrey did a segment about childhood trauma on 60 Minutes. One of the people she interviewed was child psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Bruce Perry . "It is my hope that our story about trauma-informed care will not just be impactful, but will also be revolutionary," Winfrey said at the time the segment was aired . "Doing the segment It certainly has caused a revolution in my own life." I think all of us who learn about the science of positive...

They will come for you. Be relentless anyway

It has been approximately one year since leaving my position as the Waupaca County Health and Human Services director, reminding me how quickly times passes. So much has happened over the past year… good, bad and indifferent. The world has changed, and we’ve changed with it — we’ve learned so much about doing things differently, and that sometimes different is better. It is hard to believe that we can go back to what we knew as ‘normal’. In fact, I would say it is our moral obligation to not...

To solve the Black maternal mortality crisis, start with upending racist practices

It’s been all over the news for months: Black women in the United States are dying from complications during their pregnancies or in childbirth at alarming rates, and those deaths are preventable. Less well explored is how systemic racism and historical trauma have been at the core of what’s driven up these rates over several decades. A March 20 conference entitled The Impact of ACEs on Black Maternal Health took an in-depth look into why Black maternal mortality and complications during...

Deadline extended! HEARTS Professional Learning Institute

HEARTS Professional Learning Institute We know how hard it is especially now to manage deadlines. To provide a bit of ease to folx, we’ve extended our deadline to Monday May 17th at 11:59pm . If you need any more information, we are here to help , so please respond directly to this email with your questions. Hope you can join our HEARTS community! This year only , those who join us will be able to participate for the full two years of the Institute free of charge . This inaugural institute...

Spreading HOPE Summit: Session Recordings [positiveexperience.org/blog]

Chloe Yang, 4/27/21, positiveexperience.org/blog On April 9 th , the HOPE National Resource Center hosted our first annual summit! In addition to rich discussions on HOPE in various sectors, we celebrated the growing recognition of our work around the country. Just over four hundred people participated from across the U.S. and five other countries, from the health, education, child welfare, and public health sectors, including front-line providers and senior executives. For those who joined...

How PTO and other employment factors influence ACES/ Submitted by Stephanie Ostrow

Submitted by Stephanie Ostrow: Link to Article and Resources https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/origins-health/202104/positive-childhood-experiences-may-improve-mental-health https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/06/about-thirteen-million-united-states-workers-have-more-than-one-job.html https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/02/new-way-to-measure-how-many-americans-work-more-than-one-job.html The other day I had the pleasure of reading an article in Psychology Today titled...

So Much Telling – So Much Listening

Picture four virtual showcases, 35 brave survivors of childhood sexual abuse reading to 200 people --- a wonderful gathering of supportive witnesses. That’s what occurred the last weekend of January 2021at our event: Survivors’ Voices: Works of Resilience Written and Read by Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Read more about it here . I can tell you what it looked like before we went live. We had readers who kept forgetting to breathe; two so proud of themselves they could hardly stand it,...

Maternal Health in Black and White [chcf.org]

By Heather Tirado Gilligan, California Health Care Foundation, April 26, 2021 Despite an induced labor necessitated by the potential danger of preeclampsia, Morine Cebert Gators had a beautiful birth experience. Cebert Gators, who is Black, searched diligently for a Black ob/gyn provider when she moved from North Carolina to Knoxville, Tennessee. She was mid-pregnancy, had recently finished her PhD in nursing, and was having no luck finding a doctor who looked like her. Googling and joining...

A 4-Year-Old Child Is Not a Problem. And Expulsion Is Not a Solution. [nytimes.com]

By David L. Kirp, The New York Times, April 25, 2021 The boy I’ll call Jackson is the kind of youngster who drives a preschool teacher around the bend. The 4-year-old bites and hits other children, and curses out his teacher, Mariana Lopez. During circle time, when the class is supposed to cluster around and listen to one another, he is a hellion, and nap time turns into a pitched battle. Preschool teachers rely on parents to relate what’s happening on the home front, but Jackson’s mom...

In Nation's Incarceration Capital, A New D.A. is Freeing People from Prison [theappeal.org]

By Katie Jane Fernelius, The Appeal, April 21, 2021 In recent years, prosecutors on a mission to challenge mass incarceration have been using their power to keep people out of prison, but now they’re beginning to turn their attention to those who are already locked up. Few have pursued this as promptly and publicly as Jason Williams, the new district attorney of New Orleans, who may be setting the bar for DAs nationwide. And this focus could be transformative in New Orleans, the largest city...

Ask a Black therapist: 4 ways to support Black people's mental health [cnn.com]

By Ashley Vaughan, CNN Health, April 20, 2021 "There is a difference between being informed and getting retraumatized." That's what clinical therapist Paul Bashea Williams tells himself and his clients as they struggle with the distressing images that resurfaced during the Derek Chauvin trial. The proceeding churned up a persistent trauma. The frequent replay of George Floyd's final moments may have left many feeling raw, vulnerable and without relief. [ Please click here to read more .]

Doing Things That Scare You

It’s always stressful to do things that scare you, but, generally speaking, it usually helps you learn something. Last year, our NGO, Jojo's Sanctuary , was invited by Carmen Filbeck, the director of Lanna Theological College in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to come teach a course about child protection and trauma informed care to the seminary students there. The goal was to broaden the educational curriculum of the school and prepare the students to work with children and adults who may have...

The Surviving Spirit Newsletter April 2021

Hi Folks, The latest edition of the Surviving Spirit Newsletter is posted at the website - http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/index.php Once again I've tried to create a mix of articles, videos, music, books, podcasts, resources, etc, that offer Hope, Healing & Help. As the saying goes, “ Take what you like and leave the rest. ” or here's the PDF - http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2021-04-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_April_2021.pdf To sign up for an e-mail copy, please...

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