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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:...
A Startling example of “Immoral Injury”
The op-ed by Garry Trudeau (the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/10/ptsd-treatment-veterans-medicine-mental-health/ ) recently published by the Washington...
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...
Amplifying Your Capacity to Recover from COVID
The Coronavirus has required major changes in everyone’s life. It has also created a climate of stress, fear and uncertainty. The human nervous system is extremely sensitive to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Racialized Trauma
“History is not the past, it is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.” James Baldwin The...
Video Interview with Laurie Leitch: The Social Resilience Model (SRM)
This interview between Fleet Maull and Laurie Leitch describes the Social Resilience Model's practical neuroscience-based concepts and skills. The model has been used extensively...
See the 5 SRM Video Seminars for First Responders!
Not a day goes by that we don't hear heartwrenching stories about the challenges faced by our dedicated first responders. Facing unprecedented life and death decisions the...
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...
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...
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,...
Humans at Our Best and Worst: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
We are living in a world of divisiveness that can be depleting or energizing depending on upon who your brain decides is part of “your group.” Do the words “who your brain...
We Need Each Other: Building the Resilience of Systems
We are social creatures. We grow inside another individual and hear the intonation and accents of the people around us before we are even born. We bring our...
What is Health Literacy and Why Do We Need to Know About It?
The term “health literacy” attracted my attention a couple of years ago when I was reading some work by the World Health Organization (WHO). The definition they were using for...