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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.

Non-violent communication: understanding our needs and feelings

Lou Robbin

17 hours ago
9 min

Healing

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...

Shaking loose: disentangling trauma from the nervous system

Dylan Reddish

Jul 30
7 min

Healing

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...

Trauma and the SDGs: change on a global scale

Karin Hagemann

Jun 28
3 min

Global Health

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...

The story of the Joker, the cripple, and the boy: reclaiming and integrating all parts of myself

Julian Triandafyllou

Apr 17
4 min

Healing

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...

Breaking a cycle of violence: from an external aggressor to an internal one to none at all

Julian Triandafyllou

Mar 19
4 min

Healing

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...

Trying to be a storyteller in times of war and devastation in Syria

Julie-Yara Atz

Nov 30, 2023
8 min

Collective Trauma

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...

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