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How Cancer Treatment “Treated” Me: A Graphic Story

Cissy White — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:13:19 +0000

Cancer and fun rarely go together in a sentence but when creativity, curiosity, and a community gather to combine words and images to capture our complicated, cancer-related experiences – it is fun! And healing – even though the topics being explored – death, diagnosis, brutal treatments, and side effects, and countless losses, are heavy and […]

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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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ACE Study, Scared Sick & Donna Jackson Nakazawa Announces #FemaleAdversity Series

Cissy White — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 17:00:17 +0000

I was reading over an essay co-written by Dr. Robert Anda and Dr. Vincent Felitti. I found some quotes I love. They are simple, short and clear. They are all from this book, The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic. It was published in 2010 and is edited by Ruth Lanius, […]

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Resilient Systems Needed & What Dr. Felitti Said

Cissy White — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 01:17:17 +0000

Day 9, 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. Oprah’s 60 Minutes mention of the ACE study was kind of a 20th-anniversary nod to ACE study co-principals, Dr. Robert Anda and Dr. Vincent Felitti. Two decades after the ACE study was […]

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DINE not DIE: Can We Start with Not Dying Early? (Day 4/After-Oprah ACEs)

Cissy White — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:17:33 +0000

30 Days After Oprah on 60 Minutes Series ( Day 3, Day 2, Day 1/Intro) Day 4 / Aha We are the public in public health. The public. That’s us. All. Of. Us. (Survivors. Teachers, and Parents, Oh My) Public health that’s decades-old should be mainstream and not discussed only at conferences or in journals. It’s finally […]

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