Trauma Responsive Training: Self Care Strategies

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• How Trauma Shapes the Brain: Understanding Triggers, Meaning-Making, and the Four Stress Responses
  Why do two people experience the same event but respond in completely different ways? Why does a seemingly ordinary situation trigger intense fear, anger, withdrawal, or compliance in one person while another barely notices it? The answers begin with understanding how the brain makes meaning from experience. Every experience teaches the brain something about the […]
• Situations Series: The Black Sheep Phenomenon, Push Out, and Unemployment
  Job loss is linked to depression, anxiety, loss of purpose, and a sense of dissatisfaction. Layoffs and changing political priorities dominate the news cycle as contributors to job uncertainty. But we don’t talk enough about unemployment, push out, and the black sheep phenomenon. The pattern of calling out what’s wrong or what could be improved […]
• What Is Racialized Trauma?
  If you’ve attended any of our previous trauma trainings, you know that psychological trauma is any negative event that overwhelms a person’s ability to cope. We defined coping is a person’s ability to show up and perform their roles, meet their responsibilities, and create and maintain healthy relationships. We previously defined racialized trauma as psychological […]
• Trauma Responsive Training: Self Care Strategies
  This is Part Five of the Youthcentrix® Trauma Responsive Training. In this video, we discuss Using Self-Care Strategies. Self-care is about attending to yourself through meaningful activities that rejuvenate. Want more TIPs right in your inbox? Sign up below! The post Trauma Responsive Training: Self Care Strategies appeared first on YOUTHCENTRIX®.
• The Purpose of the Four [4] Stress Responses?
  This is Part Three of the Youthcentrix® Trauma Responsive Training. In this video we discuss The Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn Stress Responses.  https://youtu.be/Jn2TJq6KwnY Want more tips right in your inbox? Sign up below! The post The Purpose of the Four [4] Stress Responses? appeared first on YOUTHCENTRIX®.
• Youthcentrix® Trauma Responsive Training Part 6: Relationship Hygiene
  In this video, we discuss Relationship Hygiene as a Trauma Responsive Practice. Relationship Hygiene is the process of cleaning your personal, professional, and social circle. Want more TIPs right in your inbox? Sign up below! The post Youthcentrix® Trauma Responsive Training Part 6: Relationship Hygiene appeared first on YOUTHCENTRIX®.
• Trauma-Informed Practices: Relationship Hygiene
  Relationship hygiene is another way we can engage in trauma informed practices. The trauma-informed practice of relationship hygiene focuses on you and your relationship partners. Relationship hygiene cuts across the personal and the professional aspects of life. We engage in relationship hygiene when we prioritize relationships that are safe, stable, nurturing, and reliable. With this […]
• Trauma-Informed Practices: Honor Children’s Boundaries
  As children mature, they want to exercise control over their time, property, and bodies. This quest for control can become inefficient and outright messy! It takes time and effort to negotiate with those we care about. Messy is part of getting to independence and self-confidence. Control may include youth being reluctant to engage in social […]
• Trauma-Informed Practices in the Workplace: Know the Needs of Your Workforce
  Workplace culture affects mental health and wellbeing. The average adult spends the majority of their waking hours engaged in work-related activities. A trauma responsive workplace culture is about creating work environments where people feel seen, safe, heard, and are set up for success. Workplace culture can be defined as the “water people swim in” in your […]
• Trauma-Informed Practices with Children: Focus on Accountability not Punishment
  Three [3] trauma responsive tips for motivating youth. The post Trauma-Informed Practices with Children: Focus on Accountability not Punishment appeared first on YOUTHCENTRIX®.