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Further thoughts on António Guterres's quote It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. What is Historical Trauma? Historical...
by LaFeminista
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 08:43 AM PST
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I found this article on “Religious Trauma Syndrome” (RTS) by Valerie Tarico on 21 September 2023. It is located at : www.alternet.org/… . Now, I suffer from no such thing, as much as I am aware of. My mother stopped our church going by the time I...
by Obiwan711
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on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 09:24 PM PDT
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Update: Thank you seems not enough to express that I’m deeply grateful for your kind words and for lifting us up. It’s difficult to respond because it hurts to write and read my own family’s story, but I promise I’m reading slowly. 2nd Update: we...
by ladygreenslippers
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on Thu Sep 07, 2023 at 10:46 AM PDT
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“What do you want for your birthday”? my wife sweet Mel Melissa Pavlik asked as my 49 birthday was getting close. There was one birthday wish that I wanted to fulfil. For many years around my birthday, my Facebook and Instagram accounts get inundated...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Thu Aug 17, 2023 at 12:30 PM PDT
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Zoom In On This Child’s Face and Ask Yourself: “Why Are Your Guns More Valuable Than Our Kids?”
by Thinkler
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on Tue Apr 18, 2023 at 10:20 AM PDT
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My MAGA sister shared this with me in my Messenger, and I couldn't remain silent. After responding to her, I clicked the link, which took me to a FB post (seen above), and wrote the following: It's none of my business whether a man falls in love with...
by WatchfulEye
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on Wed Mar 08, 2023 at 11:50 AM PST
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All Set To Retire, Then The Moment That Thrust Dianne Back Into Service And A Decade Of Cold Sweats. She and her husband Bertram were relieved about her impending early retirement from politics, and excited of what the future was going to bring. Bertram was a neurologist and doing very well thank you very much, and Diane was digging deep on what the...
by Tevye
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on Sun Feb 19, 2023 at 02:45 PM PST
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I haven’t been poor, or even lived paycheck-to-paycheck, for a long time. Even the hardest days of struggle that I’ve faced as an adult don’t hold a candle to the nearly constant trials of my childhood—hunger that went far beyond anything a sandwich...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Fri Feb 03, 2023 at 10:25 AM PST
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This story first appeared on Daily Kos on Dec. 24, 2020, and its reception has cemented it as an annual holiday tradition. I was so touched this spring�when first this tale of my seventh-grade ...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sun Dec 25, 2022 at 04:00 PM PST
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People of color—especially Black folks, and especially Black men and Black trans women—face an absolute onslaught of violence from law enforcement. Implicit bias and structural racism infiltrate all aspects of life, from, saying, interviewing for a job...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 12:19 PM PST
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I wrote this as a blog in 2018, but as it’s unfortunately more relevant with each passing day, I’m reposting it here. If you to read it on its original platform, which is the website for the school I own and run click here:www.schoolofinnerhealth.org/…...
by Rosenau
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on Mon Aug 01, 2022 at 09:49 AM PDT
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Let me count the ways. The Ohio bill I heard about has just send rage through me. All of these people killing people including children. 5 months before an election, there is already questions from them and that is how I will refer to these insane...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Jun 05, 2022 at 09:01 AM PDT
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By adhering to Just War Doctrine, Ukrainians gained the moral high ground and will make world better War is hell. It kills thousands, severely injures many more, and brutalizes and emotionally traumatizes everyone touched by it, often dragging everyone involved down for decades, if not centuries. It should be avoided whenever possible. But if fought...
by RandomNonviolence
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on Mon May 16, 2022 at 09:37 AM PDT
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This is something I have wanted to write for sometime but did not know how to approach it, even on how to title a headline. The one thing each and every person needs to know is “Your Life Matters”. We live in a very tough time full of circumstances and...
by Vetwife
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on Sun May 15, 2022 at 05:48 AM PDT
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States nationwide are quickly introducing their own versions of abortion bans as the country awaits the Supreme Court decision regarding the Mississippi law that has the ability to limit abortion rights across the country by overturning Roe v. Wade....
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Apr 27, 2022 at 01:57 PM PDT
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This twelfth diary in my mental health series is a little light on the mental health lessons and heavier on the narrative portion of how isolation is unhealthy for long periods of time. I would read �
by bilboteach
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on Wed Jun 08, 2022 at 04:10 AM PDT
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This is the sixth installment of the mental health series that I started at the beginning of the month. I am planning to take a pause at the end of the month and head a little into June, unless ...
by bilboteach
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on Wed May 18, 2022 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Before you read the third entry on my series on mental health,�I strongly encourage you to read the previous entry called “For the First Time in Forever” —�An Intro to Bipolar” . You will ...
by bilboteach
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on Sun May 08, 2022 at 06:00 AM PDT
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She worked the comedy circuit in New York. Ate pizza with George Carlin. Sold a bit to Robin Williams. “One he used on Johnny Carson when Johnny was still host,” she’ll confide if you’ll take the time to listen. She did her own stuff too, but mostly...
by Everyday People In Crisis
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on Sat Mar 26, 2022 at 08:21 AM PDT
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Just as fair warning, trauma is in the title, the entire world is engaged in seriously traumatic events right now and I'm going to talk about them and also try and put them in horribly traumatic personal terms to try and make sense of it. If you're not...
by stilltilting
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on Wed Mar 09, 2022 at 12:26 PM PST
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