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This blog hosts articles that discuss a variety of topics related to trauma,
based on both research and lived experience.
SELF-CARE: Due to the issues they address, some articles may be difficult to read. You may wish to visit our Self-Care Space at the bottom right of the page before and/or after engaging with our content.
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Creative responses to the Lygia Clark & Sonia Boyce exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery
Traumacapes' Arts Collective was invited to view exhibitions featuring the works of Lygia Clarke and Sonia Boyce and we were generously...
Sullivan Holderbach
Mar 143 min read
Navigating life after therapy
In our final session, my most recent therapist (second favorite overall) attempted to sign off with a small, unexplained laugh. It wasn’t...
Ngozi "N/A" Oparah
Feb 183 min read
Embodied healing: dance therapy, therapeutic dance, and the Traumascapes approach
This blog can serve as a road map on your quest for embodied healing through dance and movement.
Dylan Reddish
Jan 288 min read
I watched myself direct my own memory: creating a trigger device vs creating healing
Between 2018 and 2019, I was enrolled on an MA in documentary film directing. I spent the year shooting material for a short hybrid document
Julian Triandafyllou
Nov 21, 20246 min read
Non-violent communication: understanding our needs and feelings
There is something about a loss of words that highlights their power. That in being tongue-tied, we can find ourselves just outside of...
Lou Robbin
Sep 11, 20249 min read
Shaking loose: disentangling trauma from the nervous system
I will always remember the first time I tried shaking in the studio. It was a grey Sunday morning, and I stood in the middle of a...
Dylan Reddish
Jul 30, 20247 min read
Trauma and the SDGs: change on a global scale
Since 2015, we have had the UN’s 17 Social Development Goals (SDGs). They are positively worded, but what they say is that conditions for...
Karin Hagemann
Jun 28, 20243 min read
The story of the Joker, the cripple, and the boy: reclaiming and integrating all parts of myself
The Joker As a child, I reported to my mama that I had seen a ghost. I later found the story of them in one of my primary school...
Julian Triandafyllou
Apr 17, 20244 min read
Breaking a cycle of violence: from an external aggressor to an internal one to none at all
Intrinsically I know that the abuse I experienced wasn’t my fault. I can even say that to people: “It wasn’t my fault”. I can say it to...
Julian Triandafyllou
Mar 19, 20244 min read
Trying to be a storyteller in times of war and devastation in Syria
“War is primarily experienced through a body that walks and it is recounted as a bodily experience. It is the devastating, sudden...
Julie-Yara Atz
Nov 30, 20238 min read
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