Recent and ongoing events in the U.S. and throughout the world—unstable political leadership, natural disasters, armed conflicts, violence, and racism—have a profound impact on our collective sense of ...

Dr. Sarah Bexell of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection (IHAC) at the University of Denver recently sent me a very interesting email. 1 She wrote, "A student, Stephanie, asked if there are cases ...

The national public health emergency around Covid-19 officially ended on May 11, 2023, and while the return to “normal” has been celebrated by many, results from the most recent Stress in America™ ...

Carlil Pittman knows trauma firsthand. As the co-founder of the Chicago-based youth organization GoodKidsMadCity-Englewood, he grieved the loss of Delmonte Johnson, a young community activist, more ...

A reckoning with the deaths resulting from institutionalized racism, a resurgence of almost-daily gun violence and 3.1 million pandemic deaths worldwide, there has been trauma piled upon trauma upon ...

On the outskirts of Grapevine, Texas, a town about 5 miles northwest of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, there’s a memorial dedicated to the 33 airline flight crew members who lost their ...

The pandemic was hard on everyone, with its isolation, fear, masking, and remote work and school. Today we all want to go back to normal. But normal has changed, especially for children, the most ...

It’s the word of the decade. “A major signifier of our age.” “The invisible force that shapes our lives.” But what is “trauma ...

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 ...

Carlil Pittman knows trauma firsthand. As the co-founder of the Chicago-based youth organization GoodKidsMadCity-Englewood, he grieved the loss of Delmonte Johnson, a young community activist, more ...