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 that these experiences have on the mind, body, and society.