As a child, I witnessed the brutal torture and beatings that my mother, a teacher, endured at the hands of a gang of violent students, the Red Guards. The images of her half-shaved hair, a urine pot hanging from her neck, a high paper hat on her head, and the scars on her face, are forever ingrained in my memory. The full Years in a Pigsty by Sue Tong can be found at Memoir Magazine.| Memoir Magazine
To my friends, I tell the story as a joke. If Sarafina comes up in conversation, she — who bought me a beautiful pink tutu when I was nine and gave me beads and clasps to make my own jewelry when I was 14 and took me to Birdland to hear jazz when I was 19 — is now cast as an eccentric. She is my crazy aunt, the one who changed her name. # Peggy’s new name and lifestyle elicit revelations within the family. We used to find her lying on the ground, staring, my mother says. She’d bless...| Memoir Magazine
with Featured artwork “Summer Shapes” by Norton Pease This, this is the memory that awoke in me one night while showering before bed. And let’s just get one thing straight before I go any further—this isn’t some story about a kid that got molested. Because it’s not. He’d peered down at my little boy body,... The full This Is Not Some Story About a Kid That Got Molested — Gary Smothers can be found at Memoir Magazine.| Memoir Magazine
This was a moving podcast for me. One of host Sucandra’s questions took me to a vulnerable place I haven’t shared in public before and I cried as I felt the grief of a caregiving experience I’m having this year (starts at 29:06 minutes). You can download the transcript for this podcast at the bottom of this summary. Sucandra asks whether there are trauma links to leading causes of death such as heart disease and cancer. Continue reading An Unexpected Approach for Triggers and Anger in C...| Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
The Academy Software Foundation has announced the program for its annual Open Source Days event taking place August 4-11, which will include a keynote talk by the filmmaking team who worked on the animated feature Flow on August 10 in Vancouver. Held annually, Open Source Days is the leading event...| ASWF
By Nicole Johnson, LPC, MEd, author of Reparenting Your Inner Child We all know our parents weren’t perfect. Some did their best with limited tools, others caused real harm, and... READ MORE The post The Myth of the Perfect Parent: Why Showing Up Matters More Than Getting It Right appeared first on New Harbinger Publications, Inc.| New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Access Control Entries (ACEs) control which principals (users or roles) can access different resources, primarily network services, but also Oracle Wallets – which store credentials like private keys, certificates, and other sensitive data needed for secure communication and authentication. ACEs were introduced in Oracle Database 12c and supersede the older Access Control Lists (ACLs) by … Continue reading Script for Exporting Access Control Entries (ACEs)| Paulzip's Oracle Blog
Youth mental health is in crisis. We can all do our part to support the young people in our lives. Here's how.| The Best Brain Possible
Dr Cecilia Okorochukwu, Dr Rexford Obeng One of the hardest parts of Paediatrics is caring for children who have experienced traumatic or stressful events, which can have long-lasting effects on th…| PaediatricFOAM
Over 3800 ACE Survey responses show a higher number of ACEs compared with Felitti 1998 and other ACE studies. Linked to chronic illness?| Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
In this post, we note how trauma-sensitive school leaders focus on creating learning environments that are safe havens, where students are met “where they are” and supported as such to re-connect, to develop needed skills, and to maintain their physical and emotional health and well-being.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
Schools play a significant role in supporting not only a young person’s academic development but their healthy social-emotional development as well. Disruptions from the pandemic have undermined school's supportive role, especially for those students at critical transitional stages.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
Viewing the pandemic as a shared exposure to trauma among everyone in the school community helps us look differently at what is in front of us. It also helps us respond differently with a focus on practices that can mitigate the impact of the traumatic experience of the pandemic by strengthening the sense of community in our school.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
TLPI shares a series of blog posts highlighting key take-aways that we have heard from discussions with trauma-sensitive school leaders as they reflect on how utilizing the trauma lens guides them in their response to the ongoing pandemic-related challenges. TLPI shares a series of blog posts highlighting key take-aways that we have heard from discussions with trauma-sensitive school leaders as they reflect on how utilizing the trauma lens guides them in their response to the ongoing pand...| Trauma Sensitive Schools
TLPI recently held a legislative briefing where students from Massachusetts’ high schools shared with legislators what they need from their schools in order to learn and do well in this critical time of transition and recovery from the pandemic.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
This virtual briefing will take place on Wednesday, March 9th at 11:00am (EST) on Zoom. At the briefing, high school students from across the Commonwealth will share their perspectives on what they need in order to do well in school and why now is a critical moment to prioritize funding for Safe and Supportive Schools.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
