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I met her when I was at an all-time low. She saw my pain and held me close.

Mental health professionals must be trained in the dynamics of addiction and abuse if they are to help survivors of childhood trauma.

A Nashville nonprofit is determined to help parents raise resilient children by training and teaching them about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), intergenerational trauma and how the brain and DNA are affected by it, and supporting them in their fight to break the cycle of the trauma. All these at no cost, just out of mercy and their desire to serve.

Intergenerational trauma, or generational trauma, happens when the trauma of an earlier generation gets passed down. Learn more about what causes it and what to do about it.

I survived the ’60s Scoop. Here’s why the Pope’s apology isn’t an apology at all.

New Zealand politics professor Richard Shaw comes to terms with how his family's silences finds roots in the historical amnesia surrounding the acquisition of lands by Irish settlers in Taranaki, a region in the south west of the Aotearoa's North Island.

As a psychoanalyst, Wolfgang Schmidbauer has researched the psychological effects of war on children — and in the process, also examined his own post-War childhood in Germany. In this article, he warns that parents tend to use their experiences of suffering as a method of education, with serious consequences.

Take an extra five minutes to listen and ask questions before trying to connect with the other person

While marketing has made diamond rings a symbol of heteronormative happy endings, women from the Northwest Territories tell a different story about their experiences with the diamond mines.

In this special edition of ‘Don’t Call Me Resilient,’ we chat about how “the slap heard around the world” is part of a layered story of racism, sexism, power and performance.