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Born to Love

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I thought this week I would share a few thoughts from Chapters two and three of Bruce Perry’s book “Born to Love”.  The basis of this book is two-fold a) empathy allows us to make social connections and b) human relationships are powerful (both to harm or heal). Neurotransmitters Chapter two gives a wonderful review
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Explaining the Brain to Children

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I just watched a great video on helping a child or adolescent understand the brain. It was recorded by the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development. Click on the link to view the complete presentation. The presenter centers her talk around the concept that if young people understand what is happening in their
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Parenting Traumatized Children

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I just read a helpful article found at the Child Welfare Information Gateway titled “Parenting a Child Who has Experienced Trauma”.  This article was divided into many sections but I thought I would summarize for you the suggestions under the topic “Helping your Child”. Although childhood trauma can have serious, lasting effects the article stated
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Lifelong Learning

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I thought this week I would update you on training that Blanca and I are taking June 25th-29th 2018 in Phoenix, AZ.  It is training given by Anna Gomez about EMDR and is titled: “EMDR Child: Complex Trauma and Dissociation Specialist Intensive Program Level II”. Each day it will be from 8:30 AM to 6:00
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Brain Plasticity – change is possible

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I just listened to a TED talk by Dr. Lara Boyd (a brain researcher from the University of British Columbia) about brain research and wanted to summarize a few of the main points. I hope it is an encouragement, change is possible even after trauma. She started her talk by describing some of the misconceptions
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