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“When the world comes crashing at your feet it’s okay to let others help pick up the pieces if we’re present to take part in…
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Many of The Beatles’ most iconic songs, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, “Hey Jude”, and more, were written and composed by both John Lennon…
![The S Word](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/04/C3724E4A-9051-4BDF-B2F4-CF3C47845247-470x140.png?x81652)
“The S Word” is a documentary by Lisa Klein which follows the stories of suicide attempt survivors as told through the eyes of the photographer…
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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…
![Everybody Knows](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/05/57F19765-A421-4F4A-BC60-0814E82993C6-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“Everybody Knows” is a song by artist Kimbra which speaks to oppression, open to different interpretations of the theme. In the rework by Apothek and…
![Behaviour, Bad habit, Incentive, Addiction, Help, Smoking, Motivation, Perseverance, Change, Growth](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/04/A042B0E5-3535-4100-8200-66F26A96D1BE-470x140.png?x81652)
We all have behaviour we want to change, but the question is what gets people to change their behaviour? We usually scare ourselves and others…
![Song, I Feel Your Pain, Depression, Sadness, Grief, Mental Illness, Coping, Help, Friend, Darkness, Reaching Out, Lyrics](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/10/75533840-5811-4B59-AA41-1682A4296587-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“I Feel Your Pain” is a song by the electronic musician Famba. The song is written from the perspective of a friend of someone suffering…
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“I shut down again. I went blank. One minute I was spinning, and the next minute my mind was dragging itself around in a circle,…
![Struggling, Awareness, Loneliness, Depression, Death, Sex trafficking, Abuse, Mental health, Silence, Help](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/09/176F31F8-2286-4D20-8F4E-57406A1881BA-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
The song “Break The Silence” by Francois Mulder, is a song that raises awareness about sex trafficking globally and the rising concern associated with it….