Click here to view our podcast channel! Wendy Shama, a social worker in the immunology clinic Sick Kids Hospital, discusses patient and family response to…
Affective touch is a particular type of gentle caress that is crucial for social bonding and the forming of early attachments, activated by the nervous…
TRIGGER WARNING: Eating Disorders Every 62 minutes, someone dies as a direct result of an eating disorder (ED). EDs are complex mental illnesses with physical…
Halsey, Olivia Culpo and Tia Mowry are well-known Hollywood celebrities who have more than just their star status in common. Each of these women have…
Canadian author A. J. Vrana’s debut novel, The Hollow Gods, follows the intersecting paths of three characters: Miya, a maladjusted, floundering university student who yearns…
Terrible, thanks for asking is a cross-platform podcast created by Nora Mclnerny, the host of each episode. After the sudden lost of Nora’s husband and…
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month in the United States. As women and girls are disproportionately impacted by this type of violence,…
Does time really heal all wounds? As the parent of a child who was diagnosed with cancer, I know that some wounds never do heal…
Think about every unresolved argument you ever had and the dissatisfaction that followed it. There may be bitter feelings of shame, anger, or worry about…
Click here to view our podcast channel! In this episode, Trauma Report writer Alyssa Reddi speaks with Meghan Young, the executive director of the Ontario…
As many as 16% of individuals have or have had an anxiety disorder or phobia. Dr. Jen Gunter M.D. compares functional anxiety to disordered anxiety…
NPR’s Invisibilia podcast details a case of police misconduct, where Black teenager Joseph Green is falsely arrested by a Stockton police officer, after he tries…
“The Velveteen Rabbit” a children’s book written by Margery Williams tells the story of a stuffed bunny who magically becomes real through his owner’s love….
Although acceptance is growing, people in the transgender community are still heavily discriminated against. To understand what it’s like to be transgender today, the Trauma…
Norwegian painter, Edward Munch was a prolific artist whose focus is human mortality, chronic illness, sexual liberation and religious aspiration. He was considered the head…
Pulitzer-winning poet Galway Kinnell says the poems he wrote were rarely addressed to anyone in particular. An exception was made, however, when a student of…
How many of us have been conditioned to believe that life’s natural progression will lead us to the creation of our own nuclear family? Having…
Richard George Davis is a South African artist who creates surreal dream-like artworks which represent literal interpretations of common language expressions or emotions . The…
Click here to view our podcast channel! In this episode, Trauma Report writer Azin Dastpak interviews Emma Goude, an award winning filmmaker and author of…
In her spoken word poem “In My Favourite Memory of Her,” Reagan Myers reflects upon the beautiful moments shared with a friend who died by…
