Tag: #1000speak
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Prevent and Treat Childhood Trauma #1000Speak for Compassion
[ted id=2194] Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where…
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Childhood Trauma of Parental Mental Illness #1000Speak for Compassion
At the beginning of this week, Terezin – a woman who had been horrifically abused by a mother diagnosed with manic depressive psychosis – read my poem Suicide Infanticide and was understandably enraged. My poem described a fleeting and deeply disturbing psychotic thought I had postpartum. Her comment deeply troubled me and made me question my adequacy as a mother.…
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Child Welfare Resources
Updated my Resources page, adding Child Welfare Resources, in preparation for tomorrow’s post about compassion and childhood trauma for #1000Speak for Compassion. Child Welfare Resources Prevent Child Abuse America Healthy Families America Child Welfare Information Gateway Child Welfare Related Organizations Mental Health America ~ Parenting
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Writer’s Quote Wednesday – Kurt Vonnegut
I find laughter to be an excellent coping mechanism, lifting burdens from the heart, making light from darkness. Thank you Colleen Chesebro at SilverThreading.com for organizing Writer’s Quote Wednesday 2015. This week Colleen quotes Dame Maggie Smith, in character as the Dowager Countess of Grantham: “A lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears,” said…