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Man-made crisis at the Boston Trauma Center fails survivors

Cissy White — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:50:42 +0000

Boston, once known as the place to go for innovative, world-class treatment options for traumatic stress, has two trauma centers that lack the skill, will, or ability to prioritize survivors - for more than a year.

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Healing Proof: The Words & Work of Rick Hanson

Cissy White — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:34:51 +0000

I’ve been thinking and talking a good deal about Rick Hanson since my recent break-up. It’s the work I’ve done, that I’ve learned from him, that has made such a deep and profound change in my own healing. Healing is such a soft sounding word and what I feel is a new sense of being, […]

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Listen to Survivors Speak after Years of Being Silenced

Cissy White — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:43:59 +0000

I hope you watch this entire clip but more than that, I hope survivors get heard. The speeches are powerful, direct, insightful, and indicting. The sentiments, unfortunately, are not. The desire to matter, to be seen, believed, validated and supported is universal. It’s what is often denied. It’s why I feel gutted today. I can’t lie. […]

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Color Blind (www.buttonpoetry.com) & Thinking about rACE (Day 23)

Cissy White — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 15:42:39 +0000

Note: A concussion and break-up meant I needed to tend to my heart and break. However, I continue my 30 posts after Oprah on 60 Minutes blogathon. Here’s post 23. I was listening to this today and thinking about ACEs. I was thinking about those without ACEs, at home, who still deal with racial trauma […]

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Freakishly Awesome: Day 9

Cissy White — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:03:28 +0000

Day 8, Day 7/6, Days 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1/Intro Note: Please forgive grammar errors/typos which are all mine. Day 9 / Aha “Sometimes the first system we have to change is our own.” I heard that from Emily Read Daniels at a workshop I attended last fall. The topic was trauma-informed change but instead of […]

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