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Knowing how to find emotional balance in life is important because we all experience ups and downs. By developing mindfulness and bringing perspective to our…
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Marie Ulven Ringheim is a Norwegian singer-songwriter known for her indie pop project girl in red. In her single “Serotonin” Ulven reveals a darker, more…
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Chrissie Richards is a professional artist living in Brightlingsea on the North Essex coast in England whose work draws on her life experience. “I wanted…
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Killers of the Flower Moon is 2017 a non-fiction novel by the American Journalist David Grann, which is slotted to be released in 2022 as…
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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,…
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December 6th marks 31 years since 14 women were murdered at Polytechnique Montréal University, simply because they were women. As a consequence of this terrible…
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In the United States, one in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives. 63% of sexual…
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Click here to view our podcast channel! In this episode, Trauma Report writer Emma Bennet speaks with Ashley Rose Murphy, an ambassador for the Canadian Foundation for…
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May is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) awareness month. BPD is a serious mental illness characterized by rapid mood swings, extreme fear of abandonment, unstable self-identity,…
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The song “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” from the album In Rainbows by Radiohead is a beautiful, haunting piece. In this piece the narrator stands in the depths…