With all the carnage we have seen recently in the news, we need to consider what we know about talking with someone who has lost a child. Parents who lose children to illness and accidents need and deserve to be supported by their families and friends to help them move through the painful process of […]
Did the Uvalde, Texas Shooter Suffer from Childhood Trauma?
Once again, our headlines are filled with the story of the tragic shooting and multiple deaths in Uvalde, TX. For days the news headlines have reported on the horrific details of this tragedy. Podcasts, newscasts, journals and social media speak of the ways to make such tragedies something that never happens again. Yet here we […]
Uniting Around the Tragedy in Uvalde, Texas
I would be remiss to continue my normal posts on non-profit leadership in light of the tragedy that has occurred with the mass shooting at the Robb Elementary School. This has been a devastating week in our country and for all those who have been involved in this brutal set of murders in this Texas […]
Clarification about How the Amygdala Impacts Behavior
In my last blog I shared some of my thoughts about why Will Smith behaved as he did at the Oscars, suggesting his amygdala hijacked his behavior, a concept proposed by Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence. As I shared my thoughts with friends and colleagues, I received mostly strong opinions that a person […]
Viewing Will Smith’s Oscar’s Assault through a Trauma Lens
A friend was appalled when I shared that I was writing a blog describing my trauma theory that might explain Will Smith’s violent outburst and assault on Chris Rock at the Oscar’s on March 27th. He couldn’t believe I was going to excuse his violent behaviors because it was somehow related to childhood trauma. He […]
The Power We Have To Prevent PTSD
As important as it is to understand what trauma is all about, it is really the symptoms after having experienced it that can so profoundly impact someone’s life. Whether physically painful and/or emotionally devastating, trauma often leads to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with its many very troubling symptoms. These symptoms include ongoing fear and anxiety, […]
Does the Child Have ADHD or Trauma?
For those of us who deal with students who are having struggles in school there can be such a dilemma as to how to understand and categorize certain behaviors. When students are dysregulated, demonstrate “acting out” behavior or struggle to maintain their emotional balance there could be several possibilities as to what is really going […]
Navigating Tragedies Around the Holidays
Most of us are aware that we live in a world where tragedies can happen to us or to people we love, often without warning. These are those shocking events that usually happen unexpectedly that devastate someone or perhaps a whole group of people. Sometimes someone is physically injured or even killed, as in a traffic accident. Sometimes someone’s life is turned upside down because […]
Childhood Abuse and Neglect Behind Closed Doors
ABC’s 20/20 aired a documentary on November 19 entitled Escape from a House of Horror in which Diane Sawyer interviewed two young women who described their lives and their escape from living for decades in a family where all the children were horrifically abused. We learn how a family of 13 children were starved, beaten, […]
Interview with Miguel Cardona Regarding the Mental Health of our Children
Those of us who are in the field of education are realizing the immense amount of toxic stress and related mental health issues that are permeating the lives of our students. We are all extremely concerned about what we are experiencing each day. Recently Scott Detrow hosted an interview with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on […]
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