Episodes
Nov. 15, 2021
Reclamation and Reconciliation: The Lost Café Schindler
MERIEL SCHINDLER will share her journey in writing The Lost Café Schindler as she recounts the history of an extraordinary family. The Lost Café Schindler is a story of tragic loss—several of Meriel’s relatives disappeared in...
Nov. 8, 2021
Honoring the Wisdom of Indigenous People
November is National Native American Heritage Month, which pays tribute to the rich history and culture of the indigenous people of the Americas. In 2009, during President Barack H. Obama’s first term in office, November beca...
Nov. 1, 2021
Building Resiliency in Rural America
Building accessible interventions promoting mind and body health in rural America is possible. Research suggests that individuals living in rural areas are less likely than residents of urban areas to seek professional help f...
Oct. 25, 2021
Peace, Purpose, and Prosperity
Karin Weiri will discuss her new book, Achieving Peace, Purpose and Prosperity. As a society we have built a myopic view of mental health blaming the majority on genetics and leaving out environmental, societal trauma and inf...
Oct. 18, 2021
We are all refugees:Alienation our Shared Bond
We are stuck in a pattern. Urgent headlines such as George Floyd’s murder or the chaos of the Afghanistan withdrawal pulls our attention, demand our support but we consistently fail to achieve meaningful systematic change. Al...
Oct. 11, 2021
Trauma, Transformation, and Ted Lasso
Many of us needed a break from the pandemic and the usual windstorms of life. We needed a respite: a journey reminding us of decency, kindness, compassion and folksy wisdom. Over the last two seasons of Ted Lasso, an AppleTV+...
Oct. 4, 2021
Burnout and Moral Injury: Helping the Health Care Providers
Drs. Grabbe and Duva will discuss how healthcare workers can care for themselves during the pandemic and through the experience of moral injury. Dr. Wendy Dean stated that “Moral injury occurs when health care providers are “...
Sept. 27, 2021
Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy
Every Memory Deserves Respect is a book written with warmth and heart. It’s about trauma, recovery, and a remarkable therapy called EMDR—Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. The authors, Michael Baldwin, a client wh...
Sept. 20, 2021
Lessons Learned on my Cancer Journey: Resiliency & a New Career
After Michelle was diagnosed with cancer a second time and endured a challenging treatment year, she was lost - emotionally and physically. She took a job at her son’s school and had to quit after 3 days due to the pain in he...
Sept. 13, 2021
The Pied Piper of Expressive Arts: Napa to Nepal to Nairobi &More
Gloria Simoneaux is the founder of Harambee Arts and two time Fulbright Scholar. She will share the work she has done with children all over the world to promote their wellbeing through the expressive arts and through communi...
Aug. 30, 2021
Children’s Mental Health: Preparing for Back to School Challenges
Children can be caught in the crossfire of parental disagreements with school’s deciding to mask or not to require masks. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased stress, fear, and anxiety for many children. Many family members ha...
Aug. 23, 2021
“Resiliency 2021,” the Conference
Gratitude, Happiness, Empathy, Kindness and Courage can be cultivated when faced when the unspeakable heartache and tragedy of the human experience. These themes are the essence of Joy Miller’s gifts. She has asked world lead...
Aug. 16, 2021
Coping with Parental and Child Anxiety: Back to School.
As children are returning to school, many parents and children are experiencing anxiety. The anxiety may be sparked as parents leave their children in the care of others with a nagging worry about Covid-19 and whether it can ...
Aug. 9, 2021
Post-Traumatic Thriving: the Art, Science & Stories of Resilience
Dr. Randall Bell will discuss his book, Post-Traumatic Thriving, the Art, Science and Stories of Resilience. Today we see crime, abuse, alcoholism, drugs, anger, and anxiety everywhere. Jails and prisons are crammed on an ind...
Aug. 2, 2021
The Human Toll of Fire Disasters: Helping & Healing Kids & Family
Fires are devastating to communities and to the children, teens and adults grappling to survive and to recover. During the last week in Western United States, over 22,000 firefighters were combating wildfires, homes burned, a...
July 26, 2021
Posttraumatic Growth After Human Sex Trafficking and Trauma
Meet Me At the Shore: Tracking the Tide of Posttraumatic Growth After Human Trafficking and Trauma K Thomas, a trained trauma therapist and a survivor of sexual and relationship violence. K will weave their personal and profe...
July 19, 2021
Trauma-Informed Mental Health Advocacy: Get Rescue Plan Act Money
How do we fund innovative reforms to make mental health services that are trauma-informed and resiliency-focused more accessible? Two leaders in the field, Carey Smith Sipp and Jesse Kohler, advocates for reform in communitie...
July 12, 2021
Racism: How to Live Beyond Trauma
Drs. Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe-Ward will address how we are all as a world community are impacted by Racism and how we can heal from the traumas that arise from Racism. Dr. Ward’s book, America’s Racial Karma published in Sep...
June 28, 2021
Post-Pandemic Healing, Learning and Well-being
Heidi Williams-Cooper and Lindy Settevendemie began working together just prior to the pandemic with Emory University’s Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning program. SEE Learning is an innovative K-12 education progr...
June 21, 2021
EMDR, TRM & PTSD Treatment: Hope and Healing
This month is PTSD Awareness Month. Kate Wheeler and Elaine Miller-Karas will dialogue about the treatment of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and how through two treatment methods, EMDR and the Trauma Resiliency Model (...
June 14, 2021
How Technology can Save our Communities from Sexual Violence
The internet and social media are often perceived as the bad guys as they have unfortunately been abused by perpetrators to target children, teens, and adults for bullying, sexual harassment, predatory grooming and sex-traffi...
June 7, 2021
Stopping Gun Violence- Reimagining a Restorative Justice System
During a two-year period in Santa Maria, California -a city of 103,000- there were 23 murders within 17 months. This epidemic had many contributing factors, including gun violence. As the community reeled and came together, o...
May 24, 2021
Child Abuse Prevention in Res. Facilities: Breaking Code Silence
Preventing Child Abuse in Residential Facilities is the passionate commitment of our guests who are two of the founders of Breaking Code Silence, a newly formed nonprofit. Vanessa Hughes and Kathryn McNamara, both survivors o...
May 17, 2021
Trauma Healing: Safety and Trust built upon Resilience
Clive Corry will discuss the mission and purpose of Action Trauma, the nonprofit he started in 2016 in the memory of his wife, after discovering that trauma, anxiety and stress may have contributed to her death from cancer. H...