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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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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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The “F” Words – Fear & Forgiveness

Cissy White — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 20:00:05 +0000

“If your parent is the bear in the living room, it is biologically impossible to run to that parent when they are either over or under reacting. If your parent is scary you can’t run to them. And you also can’t run away from them because you are a child, you can’t function in the world […]

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PTSD, Children & Images

Cissy White — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 17:46:47 +0000

Former foster children are almost twice as likely to suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as U.S. war veterans, according to a study released Wednesday by the Harvard Medical School (HMS), the University of Michigan and Casey Family Programs. I saw this important article by Candice N. Plotkin today on a the Attachment and Trauma Network page. […]

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Survivor-Led Advocacy Initiatives (1)

Cissy White — Sat, 21 May 2016 20:18:43 +0000

I saw how infrequently people who are supposedly being served are never even asked, "What do you need or need?" by those giving what they consider to be help.

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