Social Trauma

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Racism from the dominant culture continues to impact our society in the 21st century. Discrimination and prejudice also occur among Black, Indigenous, and people of color based on factors such as skin complexion and hair texture. This complicates the issue beyond race and allows practices such as colorism to spread via internalized racism like a virulent social contagion.

An irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of the affectionately named Trauma Farm, with numerous side trips into the natural history of farming. Beginning naked in darkness, Brian Brett moves from the tending of livestock, poultry, orchards, gardens, machinery, and fields to the social intricacies of rural communities and, finally, to an encounter with a magnificent deer in the silver moonlight of a magical farm field.

For the past 15 years, radical psychologist and therapist Guilaine Kinouani has helped hundreds of Black people to protect their mental and physical health from the harm of white supremacy. In this timely book, she brings together powerful case studies, eye-opening research and effective coping techniques from her anti-racist academy and award-nominated blog, Race Reflections.

At school you were probably taught that our nervous system allows us to stimulate the voluntary and involuntary activities of our psychophysical apparatus; but know that it also has another significant function which is that of self-healing. Ask yourself this question: where did all the pains you experienced during your life originate from? From your mind, or rather from your brain! Well, know that there are some very simple exercises that allow the training of our vagus nerve with the aim of helping the nervous system to heal any kind of ailment.

A global healing framework recognizing the genius of anxiety, depression, and trauma.

Rachel Wilson’s mother died when Rachel was in her twenties. It felt like the definitive end of childhood, a loss that rewired her perspective on life, death, relationships and who she was as a person. In this book, Rachel brings together other stories of bereavement with her own, encountering people who have lost parents, siblings, partners and friends at a young age. Losing Young draws on psychological research, interviews with titans like Julia Samuel and explorations of grief in history.

Should this book have been written? Should it be read? Why is there still so much stigma, shame and taboo associated with mental health? Why do men struggle so much to talk about their problems? Are we adequately equipped? In the workplace, in your home, in the church, in society? The introduction in this book briefly explains how our brains work, it is a powerful organ. Are you trapped in a negative mindset? This book will change the way that you think.

Ever since the polyvagal theory was developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, this breakthrough has taken the world of clinical and therapeutic medicine by storm. This groundbreaking discovery is drawing back the curtain on how the autonomic nervous system controls our physical responses and emotional reactions, many of which are extremely primal and were developed as protective and defense mechanisms early in our evolution.

Die spannende Autobiografie des weltweit führenden Trauma-Therapeuten. Diese bemerkenswerte Autobiografie enthüllt die innere Geschichte eines herausragenden Menschen, der die Art und Weise, wie Psycholog:innen, Ärzt:innen und Heiler:innen die Wunden von Trauma und Missbrauch verstehen und behandeln, grundlegend revolutioniert hat. Der renommierte Trauma-Therapeut Peter A. Levine half mit der von ihm entwickelten Methode Somatic Experiencing (SE) Tausenden von Menschen, bevor er Jahre später mithilfe dieses Ansatzes sein eigenes Trauma auflösen konnte.

When Dr. Tim Lewis was twenty-eight years old, his father shot his mother while she was sleeping in his childhood bedroom, and then he turned the gun on himself. As he sat in the hospital waiting room while his mother clung to her life, his friends and family seemed to have only one question for him: "Why?" This book is his attempt at an answer. While Daddy is the story of Dr. Lewis's trauma, substance abuse, and his lifelong dedication to PTSD research as a clinical psychologist, it turns out it is also the story of America and American men.

The tragedy of large-scale trauma has etched the names of cities on a national monument of heartbreak and senseless loss. First responders, caregivers, and civic leaders are often left with the daunting task of navigating the emotional and physical aftermath and stitching their communities back together, a trajectory of healing that can take months and years.

Have you ever been bullied as a child? This book will give you some ideas on what you can do if you find yourself being bullied. Butterbean and her brothers learn a valuable lesson on overcoming bullying. They learn to understand differences in other children that may not have the support that butterbean and her brothers have. Butterbean, Seth and Baxter share the love of God as they show their love for each other. We can learn from them that you don’t know who is watching you so always demonstrate God's love for each other.

Was wird aus den Vereinigten Staaten? - Die Autorin des Nr.-1-Bestsellers "Zu viel und nie genug" stellt die Diagnose für ihr zerrüttetes Land... Das Trauma der USA, tief verwurzelt in der amerikanischen Geschichte, gärt seit Jahrzehnten unter der Oberfläche der einstigen Vorbild-Demokratie. Die korrupte und unmoralische Führung des Trump-Regimes war zugleich Symptom und Verstärker der nationalen Krise. Sie versetzte der Gesellschaft einen vernichtenden Stoß: Die Katastrophe der Corona-Pandemie traf auf ein zutiefst gespaltenes, geschwächtes Land.

One day after school, on the couch in the basement, Tori's uncle did something bad. Afterward, Tori tells her mom. Even though telling was a brave thing to do, her mom still doesn't believe her at first. Her grandma still takes his side. And Tori doesn't want anyone else - even her best friend - to know what happened. Now Tori finds herself battling mixed emotions - anger, shame, and sadness - as she deals with the trauma. But with the help of her mom, her little sister, her best friend, and others, can Tori find a way to have the last word?

Das resiliente Wir. Wieviel Polarisierung können wir aushalten und wann bricht eine Gesellschaft einfach auseinander? 2015/2016 führt die Flüchtlingskrise zu einem Erstarken rechtspopulistischer Kräfte; 2020 ändert ein neuartiges Virus schlagartig unsere Lebensrealität und wirkt wie ein Brandbeschleuniger für soziale Ungleichheiten; 2022 beginnt Putin vor den Augen der Welt einen Vernichtungskrieg gegen die Ukraine, mit schweren Folgen auch für die deutsche Wirtschaft. Und die größte Krise in Form der sich anbahnenden Klimakatastrophe steht uns erst noch bevor.

As life hurdles challenge and test our existence - or whatever you may call your ability to believe - there are manmade options available in the form of a drug in which some of us elect to escape, drown out, pause, or simply ignore. But whatever you deem it, the mind has been called "power" of man to respond as it is uniquely designed.

Encourage the vulnerable, difficult, and fun communication necessary to build strong relationships and fortify them against dysfunction, divorce, or separation. Do your everyday conversations feel like an endless cycle of repeat? Does silence dominate your time together? Every relationship goes through its phases, some harder than others, but that doesn’t mean you should simply accept that you are powerless and passively sit by and wait for the phase to run its course. What if you could turn that loop in your throat into a spiral of loving, honest, and exciting connection?

In this unforgettable work, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges provides an intimate and moving look at the lives of the students he teaches in a maximum-security prison. He and 28 students (who together are serving a combined sentence of 515 years) read and discussed plays by Amiri Baraka, John Herbert, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Miguel Piñero, and August Wilson, among others. Together they set out to write an original play drawing on their experiences of poverty, institutionalized racism, police brutality, and mass incarceration.

If you’re like most people, you feel that something in your body is out of balance. You get random aches and pains. You’re more tired than you should be. And those extra pounds just won’t go away, no matter how hard to try to rev up your metabolism. Have you ever wondered why this happens to so many people? Allergies, depression, obesity, chronic inflammation, and many other diseases are on the rise, even though people are taking more and more medications.