After a natural disaster like the Los Angeles wildfires, teachers are often a first line of support for children processing trauma — but teachers can also experience what expert Stephen Hydon calls ...

After a year that stretched you emotionally and mentally, healing doesn't mean erasing what happened. Here are seven ...

Schools should be ideal places for children who have faced trauma to process their experiences. Yet too often, school systems ...

Trauma fundamentally changes us. It’s not just a bad experience—it’s an overwhelming force that floods our system with more than we can handle. When I work with clients struggling with past wounds, I ...

We all have our scars, but what happens when we bury them so deep they start to shape our lives in ways we don’t even notice? Trauma, whether it’s from childhood or more recent experiences, doesn’t ...

Across the Central Sahel region, millions of children carry deep mental scars resulting from exposure to extreme violence and armed conflict. Through its Better Learning Programme (BLP), the Norwegian ...

A peculiar trend has taken over social media, especially TikTok, where users claim that playing Tetris can help process trauma. The idea has sparked curiosity among mental health professionals, ...

You probably think your hair is just sitting there looking pretty (or not so pretty on bad hair days), but it’s actually functioning as a biological record keeper, documenting every major emotional ...

Decades of research show the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for many mental conditions, including anxiety and depression. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), dubbed "shell shock ...

HANDS ON: Multimedia artist Kate Stockman co-leads Trauma Recovery Art Process, an art workshop at Hendersonville Parks and Recreation, alongside a trauma recovery coach. Stockman encourages ...