A new study reveals a connection between early life trauma and adult brain aging. Adults reporting severe childhood stress ...
According to many therapists and mental health professionals, sometimes trauma isn't derived from one-time, extreme life events like a tragic tornado, a school shooting or a car crash. Many people ...
For example, being bullied at school for “looking different,” racial profiling by police, and workplace racial harassment can all be DSM-5 Criterion A events, but are these rarely included in ...
Generational trauma occurs when parents unintentionally pass their trauma down to their kids. Generational trauma can affect multiple generations over the course of hundreds of years. Learning to ...
Psychological trauma is a response to an event that a person finds highly stressful. Examples include being in a war zone, a natural disaster, or an accident. Trauma can cause a wide range of physical ...
It has now been twenty years since anger was first called the forgotten emotion, and today, little has changed. While we know a lot about sadness and fear, anger still has an uncomfortable place in ...
Before the pandemic, a client hired my employee consultancy firm, Wellbeing Works, to support a team shaken by the abrupt firing of a key member. In the run-up to the firing, we discovered, the team ...
Racism can cause symptoms of PTSD. Source: Marcos Calvo Mesa/iStockPhoto Super Bowl Slurs Amy was a 21-year-old, Japanese American college student at a large, public university in New England. She ...