Community Events
Events in the Chicago area that provide important education and experience for exploring the widespread effects of trauma on ourselves and our communities.
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Treatment not Trauma: Demanding Reinvestment in Chicago’s Mental Health Infrastructure
There are currently only 5 community mental health clinics in all of Chicago. Half of the public clinics were closed or privatized in 2012 under Rahm Emmanuel, and before that, reduced from 19 clinics to 12 under Richard Daley. For the past 30 years, community mental health resources in the city have been stripped away,…
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Yoga-Informed Psychotherapy: Yoga can happen off the mat
Yoga – so very misunderstood. I still remember when I thought that yoga was just exercises with some breathing thrown in. I was 12 years old and very bendy when I picked up a yoga book and thought the poses were cool. It wasn’t until I took the yoga teacher training at the Temple of…
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Why I’m Passionate About Somatic Psychotherapy
Many years ago I attended a workshop for an upcoming training in Somatic Experiencing. The trainer, Ariel Giaretto was asked a question about birth trauma and as part of her response she said: “Premies have one foot in this world and one foot still in the last.” She described my life in that one sentence…
