Through The Eyes of Trauma

Essential Question: How can individuals and families heal from intergenerational trauma, manage trauma triggers during the holidays, and find harmony in family gatherings?

Essential Question: How can educators effectively address and cope with secondary traumatic stress while supporting students exposed to trauma and toxic stress?

Essential Question: How can trauma-informed strategies be effectively applied to support students with disabilities, and what impact do traumatic experiences during developmental years have on academic development?

Essential Question: How can schools in high-stress, urban, or high-risk environments successfully implement trauma-informed practices to support students' well-being and academic success?

Essential Question: What is root trauma and how does it shape our lives and experiences?

Engaging Question: How can we engage parents as partners to support students exposed to trauma and toxic stress?

Essential Question: How can educators cultivate a trauma-informed curriculum to better meet the needs of trauma-exposed students?

Essential Question: How can we effectively support children with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and minimize the long-term impact on their lives?

Essential Question: How can we identify resilience factors that mitigate the impact of trauma on our students?

Essential Question: How can we effectively teach emotional regulation and self-awareness to students while fostering emotional intelligence both in the classroom and at home?

Essential Question: How can educators cultivate safe and nurturing learning environments through trauma-informed practices?

Essential Question: How can trauma-informed education positively impact the lives of students and create a nurturing learning environment?

Essential Question: How can educators and parents empower children to effectively manage anger, allowing them to thrive academically and emotionally? This episode aims to help listeners understand the nature of anger, recognize its barriers to success in school and personal life, explore healthy ways for students to express their anger, and provide practical strategies for supporting students with...

Essential Question: How can we process our emotions effectively to ensure our response doesn't add to the negativity in the world? This episode aims to help our listeners develop the skills necessary to process their emotions in a healthy and constructive way.

Essential Question: How does trauma show up in the halls of a school building and what should be done about it? This episode seeks to explain how trauma doesn't just affect students, but it can also affect teachers, creating an environment of stress and anxiety that can be difficult to navigate.

Essential Question: How does unresolved trauma affect work-life balance? This episode seeks to help listeners understand how workaholism is a trauma response and how it affects your professional life.

Essential Question: How do negative emotions seem to rise without a cause? This episode seeks to help listeners understand how our emotions are a byproduct of what is going on within the hidden cortex of our subconscious.

Essential Question: What are the challenges that parenting children exposed to trauma brings and how do you mitigate that trauma? This episode seeks to understand how intentional parents have to be with the level of support that is needed for children exposed to trauma.

Essential Question: How do childhood experiences of trauma manifest in your adult relationships? This episode seeks to help adults realize how unprocessed childhood trauma can reveal itself in their current relationships.

In light of the recent tragedies involving several incidents of violence in schools involving students, we wanted to revisit an important discussion we had involving the mental health in our school system. Please take a listen, and also like, share, and review this episode.

Essential Question: How do educators cope with the trauma in schools while simultaneously dealing with their own personal traumas? This episode seeks to show transparency when it comes to trauma in schools and the difficulty of educators to be supportive to staff and students while also meeting their own social/emotional needs.

Essential Question: How can we welcome wellness in the workplace, especially when trauma and toxic stress meet us there and follow us home? This episode seeks to empower individuals to pull up to the relaxation station and welcome wellness in every area of their lives.

Essential Question: What can we do to help the body reset so that we can relax in stressful times? This episode seeks to empower individuals to pull up to the relaxation station and reset our bodies so that it houses positive energy and not stress and tension. Bessel van der Kolk, MD., is a physician, researcher, and teacher who specializes in trauma and toxic stress, and the overwhelming affects...

Essential Question: How can we train our minds and bodies to pull up to the relaxation station regularly so that we can live well? This episode seeks to empower individuals to take back control of their busy lives and provide opportunities to increase their mental and physical wellness by scheduling time to pull into the relaxation station.

Essential Question: How can we support children in getting all in their feelings and check in with their emotions? This episode seeks to help parents and teachers to support their children with their emotional development by checking in with their emotions.