Poetry can provide comfort and boost mood during grief, trauma and stress. The use of metaphors, words and rhymes help make sense of the world…
Although the term breathwork is relatively new, the practice of controlled breathing to improve mental health is ancient. Yogic breathing, or pranayama, was the first…
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…
“Dolphin Boy” is a 2011 documentary by Yonatan Nir, Dani Menkin which follows the story of Morad, an Arab teenager who was brutally beaten some years…
In her TED Fellows video, Almudena Toral describes trauma as the “psychological wound that stays after something really terrible has happened to us.” Toral is…
Psychedelics are hallucinogens which have historically been used for ritual purposes and to facilitate spiritual experiences. They have been used recreationally to enhance sensory perceptions…
Click here to view our podcast channel! In this episode, Trauma Report writer Fatmah Jahim speaks with Dr. Pat Ogden, a pioneer in Somatic Psychology…
In this thought provoking and humorous TedTalk about animal mental illness, Dr. Laura Braitman, a researcher who studies non-human animals who exhibit signs of mental…
Physician Maxwell Cooper presents the case of a young man struggling with PTSD after years of torture. During one torture session the man recalled the…
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is triggered by experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. People experience persistent flashbacks and recurring thoughts of the traumatic event; to…
