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Becoming Trauma-Responsive

In a society built on transactional relationships, coopting terms for marketing is the norm. Unfortunately this practice perverts understanding that is essential to human healing and wellness. Science is the practice of probabilities. Physicians are cautioned that half of their education will be inaccurate 5 years post graduation, yet most don't explore new research that disrupts the dogma in which they trained. Historically the western healthcare system, more accurately in function known as the sickcare system. The existing practices were birthed from the industrial revolution era and based on conceptualizing humans as machines. 

 

EMBEING® was created by a former public school teacher who knows that cultivating personal power and responsibility requires correct information and an approach that invites us to ask critical questions...together. (See the EMBEING® model here.)  There is a difference between misinformation and disinformation, the later being intentional. What we don't consider when health information is being offered is... what context is missing? Was the study a randomized control? How was it funded? How was the question asked in that survey? Language matters and the misuse of the word "Trauma" and "Trauma-informed" has distorted this moment and opportunity to grow awareness. EMBEING® 

 

Principal, Melanie through a series of overwhelming events discovered this word "Trauma" in its psychological sense in 2009 after a series of painful happenings. She was in graduate school in 2013 and earned the first MA Ed. in Mindful Education at Lesley University, believing everyone should have a deep understanding of the biological, social and psychological effects so they can experience the true freedom afforded by informed choice...Less than 10 percent of therapists are trauma-informed and only 20 percent of graduate programs even have a single elective on trauma...most physicians don't ever take a single class on the topic. For more on why I became a Trauma Educator ...

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