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The roots of violence (and mental illness too)
In keeping with yesterday's post on spanking here is more about how what we do to our children (as well as what happened to us as children) shapes future generations in a negative fashion unless we...
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Must read post of the day: a tender response to “I am Adam Lanza’s Mother”
I’m glad Faith underscored that forced psychiatric treatment is VIOLENCE. If people don’t understand the tragic irony inherent in that fact we will truly never resolve these issues. You cannot stop...
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More: Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (trauma in childhood associated...
The CDC’s ACE Study summarized in 14-minute video from Academy on Violence & Abuse The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study) is the product of collaboration between Vincent J. Felitti,...
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WOW!!! Vatican to hear debate about psychiatric drugs for kids
Robert Whitaker, Irving Kirsch, Joanna Moncrieff, Pat Bracken, Giovanni Fava, Jaakko Seikkula and others are to participate in a June 14-15 conference, hosted by the Vatican, that will examine the...
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How to escape education’s death valley
3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we...
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Integrating Personal and Social Transformation and Healing Sex
Staci Haines mentions straddling two worlds...that's a very familiar position for me...perhaps, though, I straddle several worlds including the ones she mentions. I'm finding the concept of spiritual...
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Trauma as a foundational factor in that which is labeled mental illness
This post is not just about children even though the article that is excerpted below is. It's about just about anyone who has been labeled with a psychiatric diagnosis. Children grow up and become...
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Trauma, Brain and Relationship: Helping Children Heal
Children and trauma...many traumatic events may not be obvious to all adults. Learn to protect your kids. We need to heal ourselves to be the best parents we can be too. I've posted this video before...
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Violence – a family tradition
This is very lovely and beautiful in that the harm that spanking creates is very simply explained. Please listen. "Spanking is sanctioned violence against children" … [click on title for the rest of...
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the most deadly of all possible sins
Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation...
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Mental handcuffs: how this young student describes his ADHD drugs
About his ADHD meds: "I don’t know how to explain them except for mental handcuffs. They take everything you like and make you hate them. And they don’t replace any of your likes with any other likes,...
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Unlived lives
Motivation to do what we can to become conscious. "Jung felt that the “unlived lives” of the parents deeply impacted the lives of the children, as if “branding” the children with a particular destiny....
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Children — ADHD & bipolar (history etc) Robert Whitaker – Psychiatric Epidemic
Here, Robert Whitaker looks at the research that specifically deals with Children -- especially ADHD but also so-called Bipolar Disorder. The evidence is clear: the ethics behind the use of these toxic...
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Relationships heal. Spirit Reins – where traumatized kids meet horses.
There are as many ways to heal as there are human beings. Spirit Reins works with children and families who have experienced trauma to make sure they have the tools and resources they need to reach...
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