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Understanding This Theory is Essential To Being Trauma-Informed
My typically happy, well-adjusted 11-year old daughter was having a melt downs of all melt downs. She was crying hysterically. I could hear her wailing downstairs as she was upstairs. I could feel my heart rate rising as her distress increased. I called up to my...
Against the Tide
"I don't know if I can do this anymore, Kris. I am just so discouraged." I sit with my dear friend on a sticky summer night trying to get my gut right. "Gut wrench" is an apt description. It's invaded my body and overwhelmed my mind. I can't think straight, see...
The Regulated Classroom Goes to California
Have you ever had the experience of becoming the living embodiment of an illustrated children’s book character? Yeah, that’s happened to me. I am Froggy. The Froggy that goes to school Froggy. In the children’s story, Froggy feels anxious about his first day of...
Place Matters
Place matters. It was spring break of 1993 - my senior year of high school - and I was driving back from Virginia Beach with three close friends. We passed signs for the University of Delaware. I asked if we could take a quick detour to see the campus. The one...
We Need the WHOLE to Create Trauma-Informed Systems
Sometimes I think I have PTSD from failed educational reform efforts. I am not kidding. I have developed symptoms from living through nearly twenty years of failed education reform efforts. When I reflect on the many change efforts I participated in, I shudder. I...
A GoFundMe Campaign for RESILIENCE is Warming My Heart in New Hampshire
ORIGINAL POST 1/20/18 Right after the New Year, Jocelyn Goldblatt, Cissy White, and I discussed Jocelyn's capstone project for her Master's Thesis. The screening and panel discussion of the documentary Resilience was her brain child and the cornerstone of her...