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Traumatic Stress

Journey to Peace, Recovering from Traumatic Stress Disorder

“Peace I give unto you, My Peace I give unto you. Not as the world gives do I give”, John 14:27* Words spoken at the Welcome for arriving Pilgrims to the Military Pilgrimage International, Lourdes, France. Military from forty countries, including Ukraine, would be arriving in two days for a weekend of reconciliation and healing.

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Trauma Recovery within Adults will provide the safety needed for healing of children with PTSD.

Adults must hold the safe space through individual, collective, ancestral trauma recovery, while assuming every child has PTSD these days until proven otherwise. The felt sense of safety and trust in “helpers” is vital for a child trauma survivor’s recovery. The adult who grows up and shows up is the adult who is being fully

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RIPPLE IN STILL WATER – The Ripple Effect of Trauma Recovery

The ripple effect of trauma recovery. One person, with a regulated, synchronized nervous system, in the room, creates a “ripple” of calm. One person who has integrated trauma has a co-synchronizing effect on others, in the relational field, where a coherent space is created where healing emerges. Healing within each individual in the coherent space,

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Lady With the Lamp

The Lady With the Lamp – trauma healing for the nursing profession

The Lady With the Lamp. On May 12, the nursing profession will celebrate the birthday Florence Nightingale. She was born 201 years ago. The World Health Organization designated the year 2020, the Year of the Nurse, in recognition of her 200th birthday. March 2020, a global pandemic created a catastrophic nightmare for nurses, especially those

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Trauma Recovery Story

A 9/11 Trauma Recovery Story: The Power of the Essential Breath

A 9/11 Trauma Recovery Story: The Power of the Essential Breath. While attending a 3-Day Workshop for Veterans, Trauma, and Treatment,, at the Omega Institute, in Rhinebeck, NY, October 2014, I participated in a yoga workshop led by Beryl Bender Birch. Her new book had just been released, “Yoga for Warriors: Basic Training in Strength,

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Trauma Integration

Collective Trauma Integration in Nursing Leadership through Trauma Informed Leadership

Collective Trauma Integration in Nursing Leadership through Trauma Informed Leadership In a world of collective trauma, personal trauma, and ancestral trauma, nursing is consistently found to be a profession of burnout, compassion fatigue, and most recently, with advances in neuroscience, and amazing research in the area of post traumatic stress, nurses are found to be

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Trauma Informed

Trauma Informed Leadership in Nursing Leadership

“Everything Rises and Falls on Leadership”, John Maxwell Nurses have been born into a collective trauma. Parents, teachers, mentors, were born into a collective trauma field that has been inherited through the ancestors. Our healthcare providers, our college professors, healthcare organizations where we work have been born into and created in a collective trauma field.

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Trauma Informed

Trauma Informed OR Trauma Sensitive

“Trauma Informed” OR “Trauma Sensitive” Trauma Informed Care could easily become a new buzzword. Even prior to the pandemic, school systems, healthcare systems, community organizations, and faith communities, even cities, began implementing policies, procedures, and practices to meet new requirements and guidelines for institutions to offer “trauma informed care”. Hoping to address the concerns of

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