October is my favorite month of the year. I live in the northeast and watching the leaves turn colors and fall to the ground ignites creativity in me. I get the urge to paint, draw, decorate, light candles, and revel in the autumn sights and smells. It also happens to

Welcome to the September 2022 edition of the Childhood Trauma Newsletter! This month we will cover kinship care, children’s grief, school anxiety, mitigating factors of trauma, and pet loss. Wow, that’s a lot! Kinship care awareness September is National Kinship Care Month. Kinship care families form when a child is

I have a hot topic for a HOT July edition of the Childhood Trauma Newsletter. This month I will focus on traumatic memories in young children, how they show up, and what you can do to help a child when an unconscious memory is triggered (activated). As a side note,

It’s the middle of the night in 2005. My Nokia cell phone vibrates me awake somewhere under the covers, and I manage to locate it quick enough to hit silent. A few moments later, the vibrating is present again. This time I look to see that it’s my brother in

Welcome to the June edition of the childhood trauma newsletter. The past few weeks have been heavy for caregivers as we grapple with the aftermath of the violence in our communities. I know it’s been said too many times, but my heart goes out to the families and the communities

Childhood trauma is the core reason so many children are suffering with their mental health right now. Children are scared. Their sense of safety and trust in the world around them has been damaged. But the good news is there are many things we can do to help mitigate and

Childhood trauma consultant and children’s book author, Beth Tyson, discusses what Ambiguous Loss is, why it’s important right now, and what we can do to help children cope with the uncertainty created by the pandemic. Beth shares her personal stories with grief and loss as she raises her daughter and

Every time I see an email headline with “Happy New Year!” from the newsletters I subscribe to it falls flat. Who is truly happy after what has transpired over the last year? “Happy New Year” seems like a tall order right now, and I think it’s beneficial to accept and

Today I was interviewed by Your Teen For Parents Media about how to talk to our children about school shootings. It was a timely conversation due to the mass threats that circulated last night on social media across the United States. These are scary times to be living in, and

Choosing a special gift for a tween can be challenging if you aren’t paying close attention. Tweens develop emotionally and physically at different rates, and this can make it tricky when finding the perfect gift. Not only that, but the pandemic has unleashed an avalanche of mental health trouble to