![From Tragedy to Triumph](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2024/07/July-11-Feature-Image-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“What if I told you that you could overcome anything—that there isn’t a circumstance or situation known to man that you cannot overcome? That you…
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In his poignant TED Talk, writer and lecturer Andrew Solomon weaves together tales of courage and triumph, including his own childhood struggles, to deliver a…
![History, Trauma, Images, Hero, Death, Hope, Massacre, PTSD, Warfare, Triumph](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/06/C84F9E58-1177-4C4B-9991-C19FA80A9499-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
This infamous image was captured in 1989 by Jeff Widener during the Tiananmen Square Massacre. A horrific historical tragedy that left an uncountable number of…
![Elyn Saks: A Tale of Mental Illness From the Inside](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/07/Screenshot-2015-07-06-20.00.28-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Elyn Saks, a successful mental health lawyer, and professor at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, came forward in 2007 to speak about…
![Still I Rise](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/07/Screenshot-2015-07-05-19.02.55-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“Still I Rise”, by Maya Angelou, is a poem about the adversity and racism faced by Angelou and many other African-American individuals throughout history. In…