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Into the New Year

Into the New Year

We’re well into 2024 and the year has already been a busy one for TGW. I’m going to share a few of our exciting projects. • Our work with the Novalis Trust in the Cotswolds, UK:...

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A New Article!

leitch-mccaw-2023-time-to-move-forward-resilience-and-trauma-informed-care (4) Exciting news! My colleague, Brigid McCaw, M.D. and I have had our article, "Time to Move Forward:...

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Lot’s Happening!

Here at TGW we do have a LOT happening. As you can see on our cover page, my book, Brain Gain: Timely Tools to Tackle Life's Heavy Lifting, is coming out in March. It is a...

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Bouncing Forward at TGW

One commonly-used definition of “resilience” is the ability to “bounce back” after disrupting events. However, doesn’t “bouncing forward” have a more dynamic energy? It implies...

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Contagion After Mass Shootings

The tragic mass shootings at the TOPS Friendly Market in Buffalo, NY and at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas show, once again, how contagious gun violence is in the United...

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Genocide

  I took the photo on the right when I was in Rwanda. It was during the time of year  (April) when the entire country commemorates the 1994 Genocide Against Tutsis. It was a...

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A Second Pandemic

The pandemic has challenged each of us in the most fundamental ways. Ways that are necessary for stability and security. It has challenged our sense of safety: how far should I...

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A New Year!

The arrival of a new year always encourages a review of the one that has just ended. And, there may never have been a year in the past several decades that posed so many...

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Racialized Trauma

Racialized Trauma

“History is not the past, it is the present.                                                             We carry our history with us. We are our history.”   James Baldwin The...

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It Should Be No Surprise

The recent spate of articles in our newspapers and statements from government officials expressing surprise and sometimes bafflement about the higher rates of COVID-19 infection...

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SRM: A Strategy for Uncertainity

The pandemic that has swept the planet has brought us face to face with two of life’s most essential components, health and finances. Our coping strategies are stretched to the...

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Building Resilience State By State

It is gratifying to watch awareness increasing about the importance of incorporating neuroscience-based and resiliency-oriented information into statewide policies, practices,...

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