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What if Everybody Knew What We Know about Trauma?

by Laura Piché January 9, 2012

Serge Prengel’s podcast interview for SEPtalk.com continues to take the pulse on how SE practitioners are applying their knowledge-base of Somatic Experiencing® in the real world. This time Serge speaks with fellow SEP colleague, Anthony “Twig” Wheeler. In this 30-minute conversation, Serge and Twig lean into a central question of Twig’s education and outreach work: [...]

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Like Humans, Animals can Experience PTSD

by Laura Piché December 21, 2011

Earlier this month the New York Times posted the article “After Duty, Dogs Suffer like Soldiers,” which speaks to a high evidence of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) symptoms observed in U.S. military dogs. The article states that an estimated “5 percent of the approximately 650 military dogs deployed by American combat forces are developing canine [...]

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Hope and Healing after Sexual Abuse

by Laura Piché December 2, 2011

Sexual abuse, especially of children, strikes a chord in our hearts, activates our protective instincts, offends our sense of dignity as human beings, and makes us wonder how we could have prevented such atrocities. The emotions swirl and escalate. Too many times we’ve heard about people in power using sexual acts to dominate and degrade others. [...]

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The Faces of Cruel Reality in North Kivu, DRC

by Joelle Depeyrot November 9, 2011

Faces, hundreds of faces are what I recall of the 11 months I spent in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo working as a mental health officer with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). People ask me: “So … How was it?” I try to respond. But I can’t answer in [...]

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Bully-proofing Children with SE

by Laura Piché October 11, 2011

Eleven year-old Mitchell Wilson took his own life after enduring months of cruel and violent bullying from his peers. Yet another young life lost to bullying— all I can say is “ugh.” This is no small issue. According to the website Make a Sound for a Voice Unheard, 160,000 children miss school every day out [...]

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