What if Everybody Knew What We Know about Trauma?
by Laura Pich January 9, 2012
Serge Prengels podcast interview for SEPtalk.com continues to take the pulse on how SE practitioners are applying their knowledge-base of Somatic Experiencing in the real world. This time Serge speaks with fellow SEP colleague, Anthony Twig Wheeler.
In this 30-minute conversation, Serge and Twig lean into a central question of Twigs education and outreach work: What if everybody knew? This inspires questions like:[...]
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Like Humans, Animals can Experience PTSD
by Laura Pich December 21, 2011
Earlier this month the New York Times posted the article After Duty, Dogs Suffer like Soldiers, which speaks to a high evidence of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) symptoms observed in U.S. military dogs. The article states that an estimated 5 percent of the approximately 650 military dogs deployed by American combat forces are developing canine[...]
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Hope and Healing after Sexual Abuse
by Laura Pich
December 2, 2011
Sexual abuse, especially of children, strikes a chord in our hearts, activates our protective instincts, offends our sense of dignity as human beings, and makes us wonder how we could have prevented such atrocities. The emotions swirl and escalate. Too many times weve heard about people in power using sexual acts to dominate and degrade others. [...]
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The Faces of Cruel Reality in North Kivu, DRC
by Joelle Depeyrot November 9, 2011
Faces, hundreds of faces are what I recall of the 11 months I spent in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo working as a mental health officer with Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF). People ask me: So How was it? I try to respond. But I cant answer in [...]
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