We have no idea what someone else is enduring. I recently saw a meme that held true for me as a teacher. The meme displayed a number of empty desks with labels on them telling what adversities the students are enduring. “Going to bed hungry,” “Parent in jail,” “Being abused,” “suffering from anxiety,” and so … Continue reading The DNA of Trauma by William Klein
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Coping With Trauma by William Klein
The act of birth itself is traumatic. We enter from a womb of comfort and security into a bold, daunting and dissonant, chaotic, hurried fluorescent lit world – bloodied and wet, sticky, being handed from one to another and relying on multiple sensibilities to hold a frantic awareness calmly, serenely with understanding and poignant culpability. … Continue reading Coping With Trauma by William Klein

