A psychiatrist shares her experience working with Native communities and how understanding historical trauma can begin the ...

Trauma creates overwhelming feelings of vulnerability and helplessness that cannot be cognitively processed into a meaningful and integrated narrative (Horowitz, 1982; Bromberg, 1998).

Matthew Brandon was six years old when he made his way into Chris and Shannon Gardiner's life. The boy was non-verbal and had complex needs, and he had already been moved around a lot in the foster ...

Intergenerational trauma refers to the apparent transmission of trauma between generations of a family. People who experienced adverse childhood experiences growing up, or who survived historical ...

The Big Bad explores intergenerational trauma and marginalized identities through video games and the supernatural. A ...

The path to forgiveness takes a different shape each time someone walks it. For Vietnamese American author, playwright and performer Susan Lieu, that path was circuitous, including degrees from both ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

Back in February, I wrote about acquiring a National Parks passport book. This month, I finally got my second stamp, at Eugene O’Neill’s historic Tao House in Danville. O’ Neill is America’s only ...

Seattle artist Tessa Hulls’ new graphic novel Feeding Ghosts is a deeply stirring narrative of loss, mental illness, and intergenerational trauma. Set against the backdrop of China and its difficult ...