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The Power Of Vulnerability
The Power Of Vulnerability

The Power Of Vulnerability

Featuring Brené Brown

Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.

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Listening to Shame

Listening to Shame

Featuring Brené Brown

Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront their shame head-on. Her own humor, humanity and vulnerability shine through every word.

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InBrief: The Science of Neglect

InBrief: The Science of Neglect

Extensive biological and developmental research shows significant neglect—the ongoing disruption or significant absence of caregiver responsiveness—can cause more lasting harm to a young child’s development than overt physical abuse, including subsequent cognitive delays, impairments in executive functioning, and disruptions of the body’s stress response. This edition of the InBrief series explains why significant deprivation is so harmful in the earliest years of life and why effective interventions are likely to pay significant dividends in better long-term outcomes in learning, health, and parenting of the next generation. This 6-minute video provides an overview of The Science of Neglect: The Persistent Absence of Responsive Care Disrupts the Developing Brain, a Working Paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.

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Living Without Fear

Living Without Fear

Featuring Dr Jee Hyun Kim

Dr Kim currently leads a research team working on memory aspects of early-onset anxiety disorders and drug addiction in the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne. Her research suggests cognitive-behavioural therapies have different effectiveness depending on one's age, and advocates treatment of mental disorders during childhood.

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Finding Joe

Finding Joe

In the early 20th century, while studying world mythology, Joseph Campbell discovered a pattern hidden in every story ever told and he called it “the heroes journey”. A truly inspirational film, FINDING JOE takes us on the ultimate heroes journey: the journey of self discovery. As you slay dragons and uncover treasures, you just may find that the holy grail you seek is closer than you think.

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Pia Mellody Lectures

Pia Mellody Lectures

Pia Mellody is an internationally renowned lecturer on the childhood origins of emotional dysfunction. Her recovery workshops have benefited people all over the world and her bestselling books have been translated into many languages. She is a member of the faculty at The Meadows Treatment Center, a residential center for victims of trauma, emotional abuse, and addictions.

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How A Messed Up Childhood Affects You In Adulthood

How A Messed Up Childhood Affects You In Adulthood

It's a humbling situation, but much about who we are as adults can be traced back to things that happened to us before our 12th birthday. Part of learning to be an adulthood means making sense of the events of our childhood. We need to spot how our past might be trying to interfere with our chances in the present.

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How Our Childhoods Affect Our Adult Lives

How Our Childhoods Affect Our Adult Lives

Without anyone meaning for this to happen, we've all come through childhood bearing a distinctive range of emotional scars. The task is to understand what these are, counteract their worst effects on our moods and actions - and explain them in a good natured and patient way to people close to us.

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The Impact of Early Emotional Neglect

The Impact of Early Emotional Neglect

A lot of our adult problems come down to varieties of emotional neglect suffered in childhood. In this film, we look at one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology, The Still Face Experiment, devised by Professor Ed Tronick - which gives us an insight into the vulnerability of, and need for love in young children.

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Pleasure Unwoven - 1. Is addiction a disease?

Pleasure Unwoven - 1. Is addiction a disease?

In this chapter of his journey into the brain of an addict, Dr Kevin McCauley answers the most fundamental question.

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Pleasure Unwoven - 2. The Choice Argument

Pleasure Unwoven - 2. The Choice Argument

In this chapter of his journey into the brain of an addict, Dr Kevin McCauley explains the best argument against classifying addiction as a disease.

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What is Codependence?

What is Codependence?

In one of her earlier videos, Pia Mellody walks through her definition of codependence and the underlying factor of the disease

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Understanding the Basic Facts of Child Sexual Abuse

Understanding the Basic Facts of Child Sexual Abuse

Family Health Training Academy
Philadelphia Dept of Public Health

This e-module will provide an introduction to Understanding the Basic Facts of Child Sexual Abuse and information about available resources.

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Deep Dive - Stop Ignoring Your Inner Child -  with Adam Roa

Deep Dive - Stop Ignoring Your Inner Child - with Adam Roa

As we grow up it becomes easier to forget to listen to the inner child inside. If you were to check in with your inner child right now, what would he/she say? We get to decide what kind of relationship we have with ourselves by paying attention and listening. Do you have a relationship based on trust? Or do you push yourself too far where you don’t feel safe? In this episode of The Deep Dive with Adam Roa, I dive into how you can create more self-love and build a healthy relationship with yourself.

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Brené Brown on Empathy

Brené Brown on Empathy

Featuring Brené Brown

What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.

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Dwight Celebrates His Love for His Inner Child

Dwight Celebrates His Love for His Inner Child

Dwight E. Kobar, author of “Who Else Can Love You? Things to Tell Your Child, Inner or Outer,” speaks about the role of his inner child in writing his book, “Who Else Can Love You? Things to Tell Your Child, Inner or Outer.” An open mic event at Scuppernong Bookstore in Greensboro NC on July 21, 2022. He closes with an invitation to celebrate your own inner child. Inspiring and moving.

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Common Symptoms of Sexual Trauma with Dr. Peter A. Levine

Common Symptoms of Sexual Trauma with Dr. Peter A. Levine

This is an excerpt from the audio course Sexual Healing by Dr. Peter A. Levine.

Healing the wounds of sexual trauma has long been considered by many psychotherapists to be one of the most challenging tasks a person will ever face. The good news, teaches Dr. Peter A. Levine, is that new and more effective tools are emerging.

On Sexual Healing, Dr. Levine, a pioneer in the field of healing trauma, teaches you his innovative series of body-based practices to release the sexual trauma of your past.

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From Dark Shame to Courageous Inspiration!

From Dark Shame to Courageous Inspiration!

Cathy Studer, author of “Broken to Beautifully Whole,” interviews Janet Bentley, author of “Don’t Expect Me to Cry: Refusing to Let Childhood Sexual Abuse Steal My Life.”

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The Power Of Social Connection In Healing Trauma With Janet Bentley

The Power Of Social Connection In Healing Trauma With Janet Bentley

Survivors of sexual abuse have a need for social connection to give them the support to heal – something that has become more elusive as we all hunker down in our homes in the midst of a pandemic. In this interview with Debra Graugnard, Janet Bentley, talks about the power of connection in healing from sexual abuse and complex PTSD, the challenge of maintaining social connection in these times of isolation and the additional support that survivors need.

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From Survivor to Thriver - Women's Summit

From Survivor to Thriver - Women's Summit

From Survivor to Thriver - Women's Summit w/ Janet Bentley, author of “Don’t Expect Me to Cry“ discusses the reason for the subtitle of that book, “Refusing to Let Sexual Trauma Steal My Life.”

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The Power Of Vulnerability
Listening to Shame
InBrief: The Science of Neglect
Living Without Fear
Finding Joe
Pia Mellody Lectures
How A Messed Up Childhood Affects You In Adulthood
How Our Childhoods Affect Our Adult Lives
The Impact of Early Emotional Neglect
Pleasure Unwoven - 1. Is addiction a disease?
Pleasure Unwoven - 2. The Choice Argument
What is Codependence?
Understanding the Basic Facts of Child Sexual Abuse
Deep Dive - Stop Ignoring Your Inner Child -  with Adam Roa
Brené Brown on Empathy
Dwight Celebrates His Love for His Inner Child
Common Symptoms of Sexual Trauma with Dr. Peter A. Levine
From Dark Shame to Courageous Inspiration!
The Power Of Social Connection In Healing Trauma With Janet Bentley
From Survivor to Thriver - Women's Summit
 

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