What exactly causes childhood trauma?

As parents, many of us want to raise kind, empathetic kids, but we don’t always feel equipped to talk about race, bias, and identity in everyday life. In honor of Black History Month, this conversation feels especially important. I sit down with culturally responsive therapist An ...  Show more

Feeding choices carry an enormous emotional weight for new parents, often shaped more by online narratives and cultural pressure than by balanced evidence. In this conversation, we unpack formula guilt, breastfeeding myths, and how distorted risk messaging fuels shame. We talk ab ...  Show more

“Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside of you as a result of what happens to you” -What is trauma, -what are the different types of trauma, -what happens in childhood when we experience traumatic events - what can we do as parents to protect our kids from in ...  Show more

Hoy invitamos a la psicóloga clínica, Edith Shiro, para hablar del trauma.

¿Qué es un trauma y por qué todas las personas lo hemos vivido?

¿Qué hago si tengo un trauma? ¿Cómo puedo identificarlo y sobre todo sanarlo?

¿Cómo cambia mi cerebro, mis emoci ...

When you think back to your birth, do you recall it fondly? The way they say you're supposed to feel about this momentous moment? Or do you try to block it out? Cry about it? Feel like it was an event you don't even want to remember? For too many families, birth isn't a peaceful ...  Show more

We’ve heard the word trauma used liberally the past few years, both in relation to shared global events (like the pandemic) and in relation to more trivial things (like someone cutting in line at Starbucks).When a psychological concept goes mainstream, it’s bound to be understood ...  Show more