Generational trauma occurs when parents unintentionally pass their trauma down to their kids. Generational trauma can affect multiple generations over the course of hundreds of years. Learning to ...

According to many therapists and mental health professionals, sometimes trauma isn't derived from one-time, extreme life events like a tragic tornado, a school shooting or a car crash. Many people ...

Trauma surrounds us. Perhaps you recall the abduction in April 2014 of 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria. Or Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children. Or the ...

Dissociating helps us survive trauma, but unwanted dissociation can stop us from fully living our lives. These grounding ...

Trauma dumping, the act of sharing deeply personal and emotional experiences in a public, unfiltered manner, has become increasingly popular on TikTok. While it offers some users a sense of catharsis, ...

According to many therapists and mental health professionals, sometimes trauma isn't derived from one-time, extreme life events like a tragic tornado, a school shooting or a car crash. Many people ...

At Emory University, researchers conditioned male mice to fear the smell of cherry blossoms. To do this, they introduced the cherry blossom odor into the environment and concurrently delivered an ...

In early 2019, Danielle Falcon sat in her Marine Corps cammies, huddled in her car in an empty lot outside Camp Courtney, in Okinawa, Japan. Tears streamed down her face as she breathed heavily, ...

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.

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Our health consumes a growing share of our economy and our attention, but we are not in great shape. Even as a ruinous pandemic ...