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03/22/2024

“Pendulation is much more than simply an expansion and contraction, but rather the rhythm of our entire being as our internal states change back-and-forth between uncomfortable sensations, emotions, and images to more comfortable ones. This allows for new experiences to freshly emerge at each moment. When uncomfortable feelings don’t readily go away, they are usually associated with stress or trauma. If we are defeated and frozen in hopelessness, the ability to move out of that state through natural pendulation will be diminished. In this case, we may need a little help to get the pendulum moving again. When this natural resilience process has been shut down, it must be gradually restored. The mechanisms that regulate our mood, vitality, and health are dependent upon it. When this rhythm is reestablished, there is, at least, a tolerable balance between the pleasant and unpleasant.”

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02/19/2024

Historical trauma is the cumulative,
multigenerational, collective experience of emotional and psychological injury in communities and in descendants. One of the most familiar examples of historical trauma is that experienced by Native Americans.

Traumatic events, such as forced relocation, genocide, or the abduction of youth to more than 350 government-funded boarding schools, caused lasting impacts on Native American communities.

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01/29/2024

“The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness.

Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried.

Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work.

Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.”

Except from:
Judith Lewis, Herman 1992, trauma and recovery, the aftermath of violence from domestic abuse to political terror.

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01/22/2024

“When faced with a difficult challenge, such as mastering complex equations or training for a marathon, many individuals will find the effort too costly, and withdraw. Others, however, will marshal their resources, and persist in their efforts against the same challenges, even in the absence of immediate reward. This individual difference has received a great deal of attention in recent years, as growing research indicates that individuals who persevere in the face of challenging situations show better life outcomes in the domains of health, academic achievement, and career success (Duckworth and Quinn, 2009; Duckworth and Gross, 2014).”

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01/19/2024

“When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not join their chaos.”

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01/17/2024

When you step outside into the snow and you feel the silence settle around you, it’s not your imagination. Snow has acoustical properties which absorb sound—up to 60% of noise, in fact. This is according to research by the University of Kentucky—and the quiet helps you feel calm and centered.

The peacefulness of the snow also helps you focus in on the sounds of the breeze, the breaking of a branch or the trickle of a nearby stream—and when you hear the sounds of nature, your brain activates the centers which control rest and relaxation, according to research by University of Sussex.

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01/16/2024

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don’t hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don’t take things that aren’t yours.

Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life—learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

Wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup—they all die. So do we.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned—the biggest word of all—LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all—the whole world—had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are—when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

01/09/2024

Does your mindfulness practice change this time of year?

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01/05/2024

The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) reports that approximately …

1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men have been stalked at some point in their lives.

While most women and men first experience being stalked as adults, approximately 24% of female victims and 19% of male victims reported being stalked as minors.

Nearly 58% of female victims and 49% of male victims experienced stalking before the age of 25.

Women and men who were stalked felt fearful, threatened, or concerned for their safety or the safety of others as a result of the perpetrator’s behavior. About 69% of female and 80% of male victims experienced threats of physical harm during their lifetime.

Research has shown a relationship between stalking victimization and complaints of pain and poor current health status, injury, and chronic disease. Studies have also shown that stalking can lead to psychological distress, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

So now what?

* Empowering everyone to understand, recognize, and address stalking.

* Mobilizing men and boys as allies in prevention efforts.

* Creating and supporting safe environments within relationships, schools, and communities through programs and policies that reduce risk and promote healthy relationships.

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01/04/2024

January marks the annual National Stalking Awareness Month (NSAM), an annual call to action to recognize and respond to the serious crime of stalking.

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), “Stalking is a public health problem that affects millions of people in the United States. Stalking involves a perpetrator’s use of a pattern of harassing or threatening tactics that are both unwanted and cause fear or safety concerns in a victim.”

Stalking tactics can include:

* Unwanted following and watching of the victim.
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* Unwanted approaching or showing up in places, such as the victim’s home, workplace, or school.
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* Unwanted use of global positioning system (GPS) technology to monitor or track the victim’s location.
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* Leaving strange or potentially threatening items for the victim to find.
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* Sneaking into the victim’s home or car and doing things to scare the victim or let the victim know the perpetrator had been there.
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* Use of technology (e.g., hidden camera, recorder, computer software) to spy on the victim from a distance.
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* Unwanted phone calls, including hang-ups and voice messages.
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* Unwanted texts, emails, social media, or photo messages.
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* Unwanted cards, letters, flowers, or presents.
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Using technology to socialize and communicate has its conveniences, but it can also make it easier for people to harass others in ways that might be frightening and threatening.

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01/01/2024

Happy New Year!! Want to shake off some of last year’s stress, before beginning anew? Well, don’t miss out … book your appointment today! DM for details .

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12/31/2023

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this, we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”

* Goran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden

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12/24/2023

“Christmas Eve will find me, where the lovelight gleams. I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.”

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12/19/2023

Early childhood trauma can have significant effects on our ability to develop a healthy sense of self. The absence of secure attachment affects our ability to regulate our emotions, keeping a child or adolescent stuck trying to get their needs met, limiting future development.

One of the most important trauma prevention strategies is to give children a secure base.

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12/15/2023

There’s a saying, “ we can’t become well in the same environment that made us ill.” While of course there are exceptions, it’s a reasonable expectation. Read more at link in bio.

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12/14/2023

Or have we long moved on …

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12/12/2023

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