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Inside Out: The Grief, Trauma and Anxiety of Climate Change (and what you can...
xEmbedded ContentIn episode 121 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Dr. Renee Lertzman. Dr. Lertzman is an environmental psychologist and founder ofProject InsideOut, a forthcoming resource hub and...
View ArticleThe Questions Amy Coney Barrett Should Have Been Asked – But Weren’t
It seems to be a foregone conclusion that federal Appeals Court judge Amy Coney Barrett will be confirmed as the next Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court. That is quite a feat for a...
View ArticleDeja Vu All Over Again?
Am I the only one having flashbacks of 2016 as Election Day approaches?Four years I was doing my usual phone banking in Arizona’s 1st Congressional district, a largely rural district that extends from...
View ArticleEvery minute of AOC's hour-long Instagram video about the pro-Trump...
On Tuesday night, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hopped onto an Instagram live video and shared her experience during the pro-Trump insurgency at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday. In a moving...
View ArticleTrauma - What the Staff Endured
Trauma!We have moved on. The insurrection was oh so yesterday! What is the Biden Administration going to do today? The staff got out from under the desks and tables walked through the trash and tear...
View ArticleTomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Why Congress Has to Agree on More Than Just a...
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Perhaps the strangest thing about America’s “forever wars” is how little obvious...
View ArticleKellyanne Conway accused of posting topless photo of teenage daughter on Twitter
In another attempt to silence her daughter, Kellyanne Conway, former White House aide to Donald Trump, allegedly posted a topless photo of Claudia Conway on Twitter on Monday. Claudia has gained quite...
View ArticleAOC gets honest about why she thinks some Republicans want people to just...
On Monday evening, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Instagram Live for more than one hour to share more of her personal experience during the pro-Trump insurgency at the U.S. Capitol on...
View ArticleCongressional staffers urge Senate to convict Trump
www.cnn.com/…Hundreds of congressional staffers wrote an open letter to senators urging them to consider the trauma aides experienced during the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol and to convict...
View ArticleConservatives tried to smear AOC on Twitter, but users hijacked the hashtag...
K-pop fans are back to the rescue on Twitter. Known for hijacking hashtags on the social media platform with photos and videos of K-pop performers, K-pop fans encouraged users to flood the hashtag...
View ArticleI Believe You, Alexandria
My dismay was acute earlier this week when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed she was an assault victim and thus the violent mob that trampled our Capitol was an especially traumatic event for her.Our...
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KosAbility: Writing about Trauma
KosAbility meets the last Sunday of every month at 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern. Open thread, all are welcome. Today is also an open thread.Hi, all —It’s been a kind of intense week, with weather and...
View ArticleWhat is the earliest memory that you have? How old were you?
When I was young I had several cognitive deficits, some of which still manifest themselves today. I noticed that my memory is the main issue that I have problems with. I took a Mental Status Exam after...
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My white daughters and I are bearing witness and we are devastated. Do Black...
This is the third day of the Dereck Chauvin Murder Trial, better known as the George Floyd Murder Trial.My four adult daughters live across the country and state from me. But we are close. We group...
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Healing from the trauma of the climate emergency.
"Dadirri listens and knows, witnesses, feels, empathizes in the pain under the anger, and, if the anger is accompanied by action, seeks to understand the thoughts and feelings behind the action....
View ArticleAssaulted by pro-Trump rioters at the Capitol, officer speaks up against...
It’s been months since the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection but new information on the events leading up to the failed coup and what exactly happened continue to be shared, as investigations continue. To...
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♀️ThisWeekInTheWarOnWomen: Teach Men2 Not Violate? Brain Science on...
Most of the news we’ve seen about teaching men and boys to not batter, not rape, not coerce or dominate, etc., involves academic curriculum changes and additions, or workshops from community...
View Article‘Even as I write this it brings me to tears’: Police officer Michael Fanone...
An officer who suffered a heart attack and concussion after being assaulted by a pro-Trump mob during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has written a letter to Congress describing his ongoing trauma. In...
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Can We Get AOC's Back?
You remember that video above right? When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared her experience during the insurrection and in a very open and vulnerable manner revealed events of her past which...
View ArticleHow shall we get AOC's Back?
Hey, sorry I vanished for a day there. Depression kicking my ass. I had posted a dairy/story asking if there was an interest in sending a message to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that:YOU HAVE AN...
View ArticlePennsylvania to charge for miscarriages, require 'fetal death certificates'
GOP officials just can’t keep their hands off of women’s rights. Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania have once again taken a step backward in reproductive health rights by changing the Keystone...
View ArticleNew data: 1 in 5 Asian Americans who experience racism display at least 3...
Since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic, anti-Asian crimes have continued to rise at alarming rates. Report after report indicates spikes in the frequency and severity of these hate crimes,...
View ArticleThank you all and Update..
I wanted to personally thank all of you for your generosity during the lawyer hunt for our great grandaughter. There is not much of an update other than an attorney was retained and we are holding...
View ArticleJudge maintains children who saw George Floyd's murder possibly not...
When Black people ask, demand, scream, practically beg white people to show even the tiniest indication that they recognize or are even attempting to learn the Black person’s experience in this...
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Top Comments: Aftermath. One Week After A School Shooting
So, as many of you know, last Friday a thing happened at my school. Now the question becomes, What Happens Next?First, the shooter has been arrested. He was a former student. The students who joined...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 pandemic has killed the caregivers of 1 in 500 children
The official death toll in the United States from COVID-19 is above 710,000 as of this story’s publishing. The reality is that there are likely more deaths that are directly related to COVID-19, in...
View ArticleAfter media outcry, charter school drops assignment asking fourth-graders to...
After about a week of widespread media outcry, a public charter elementary school in Georgia has finally removed a deeply offensive assignment from its curriculum. Fourth graders were prompted to...
View ArticleThe Language of the Night: The Trauma Plot and Fantasy
Tonight’s essay might just as easily be called “The Trauma Plot and Realism Crossover.” At the beginning of this month, literary critic and staff writer at The New Yorker, Parul Sehgal wrote a lengthy...
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📌This Week in the War On Women: SCOTUS nom shortlist, & other news
Scroll down to the end of the diary for a brief guide to the confirmation hearings process, with biographies & photos of the three Black women judges considered to be on the shortlist for...
View ArticleHow a principal/pastor abused my son into hating school
My son Felix is 11 years old and he hates school. The above sentence wouldn't be unusual really, lots of kids roll their eyes at a school system that was designed to create factory workers from back...
View ArticleThe Trauma of Non-Intervention
Just as fair warning, trauma is in the title, the entire world is engaged in seriously traumatic events right now and I'm going to talk about them and also try and put them in horribly traumatic...
View ArticleElder Orphans: Our Very American Nightmare
She worked the comedy circuit in New York. Ate pizza with George Carlin. Sold a bit to Robin Williams. “One he used on Johnny Carson when Johnny was still host,” she’ll confide if you’ll...
View Article'The scars won't go away': Ohio's 'Mean Jean' argues why rape survivors...
States nationwide are quickly introducing their own versions of abortion bans as the country awaits the Supreme Court decision regarding the Mississippi law that has the ability to limit abortion...
View Article"Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" - How Trauma Works
Before you read the third entry on my series on mental health, I strongly encourage you to read the previous entry called “For the First Time in Forever”— An Intro to Bipolar”. You will see why I am...
View ArticleYour Life Matters
This is something I have wanted to write for sometime but did not know how to approach it, even on how to title a headline. The one thing each and every person needs to know is “Your Life Matters”....
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By adhering to Just War Doctrine, Ukrainians gained the moral high ground and...
War is hell. It kills thousands, severely injures many more, and brutalizes and emotionally traumatizes everyone touched by it, often dragging everyone involved down for decades, if not centuries. It...
View Article"I Will Always Love You" - Why Even Best Friends Can be Rejected
This is the sixth installment of the mental health series that I started at the beginning of the month. I am planning to take a pause at the end of the month and head a little into June, unless others...
View Article"The Myth of Let it Go is Cracked" - My COVID Trauma in October 2020
This twelfth diary in my mental health series is a little light on the mental health lessons and heavier on the narrative portion of how isolation is unhealthy for long periods of time. I would read...
View ArticleAnd this is freedom? Are they completely insane? Time to lock THEM up.
Let me count the ways. The Ohio bill I heard about has just send rage through me. All of these people killing people including children. 5 months before an election, there is already questions...
View ArticleIt's Time to Call Out the Dragons
I wrote this as a blog in 2018, but as it’s unfortunately more relevant with each passing day, I’m reposting it here. If you to read it on its original platform, which is the website for the school I...
View ArticleBlack grandmother sues Denver detective after SWAT team raided her home...
People of color—especially Black folks, and especially Black men and Black trans women—face an absolute onslaught of violence from law enforcement. Implicit bias and structural racism infiltrate all...
View ArticleFinding joy amid the trauma of that Christmas I spent at a homeless shelter
This story first appeared on Daily Kos on Dec. 24, 2020, and its reception has cemented it as an annual holiday tradition. I was so touched this spring when first this tale of my seventh-grade...
View ArticleCan someone who's never been poor ever truly understand the scars that...
I haven’t been poor, or even lived paycheck-to-paycheck, for a long time. Even the hardest days of struggle that I’ve faced as an adult don’t hold a candle to the nearly constant trials of my...
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All Set To Retire, Then The Moment That Thrust Dianne Back Into Service And A...
She and her husband Bertram were relieved about her impending early retirement from politics, and excited of what the future was going to bring.Bertram was a neurologist and doing very well thank you...
View ArticleBeing Kind to Gay People
My MAGA sister shared this with me in my Messenger, and I couldn't remain silent. After responding to her, I clicked the link, which took me to a FB post (seen above), and wrote the following:It's none...
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Guns Are Killing Our Kids
Zoom In On This Child’s Face and Ask Yourself: “Why Are Your Guns More Valuable Than Our Kids?”
View ArticleI want to share my Birthday wish with you all
“What do you want for your birthday”? my wife sweet Mel Melissa Pavlik asked as my 49 birthday was getting close. There was one birthday wish that I wanted to fulfil. For many years around my birthday,...
View ArticleSea, Sand, Rape
(Trigger warning. Forgive any errors, this was hard to write. I might be preaching to the choir, but if this helps anyone)My oldest daughter called. She was frozen in her college classroom. By frozen,...
View Article“Religious Trauma Syndrome” (RTS)
I found this article on “Religious Trauma Syndrome” (RTS) by Valerie Tarico on 21 September 2023. It is located at : www.alternet.org/… . Now, I suffer from no such thing, as much as I am aware of....
View ArticleFYI: I/P: Historical Trauma.
Further thoughts on António Guterres's quote It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating...
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