Have you ever wondered why your family functions the way it does? Or why certain behaviors are accepted while others are frowned upon? Perhaps there’s a double standard, where some actions are allowed ...

We know now that newborns don’t enter into the world with a clean slate. Their emotional history begins even before they are conceived. All the eggs a woman will carry form in her ovaries while she is ...

Trauma surrounds us. Perhaps you recall the abduction in April 2014 of 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria. Or Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children. Or the ...

There is a lot being written these days on post-traumatic growth (PTG) and resilience. As a trauma therapist and scholar on trauma responses, I follow these with Google alerts and at least once a week ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3- Good health and wellbeing. Trauma is often understood as an individual psychological event, yet its roots and repercussions are ...

I invite you to pause for a moment and look around you. Notice the way our mothers flinch at sudden sounds, the way fathers avoid speaking about their own painful childhoods. Now, look closer at your ...