Why Your Adult Child’s Brain Isn’t Fully Developed Yet
The prefrontal cortex is the brain region most responsible for what researchers call executive function: the cluster of cognitive skills that govern planning, initiating...
Water Is One of the Oldest Trauma Treatments in Human History
Four thousand years before anyone used the word “therapy,” an Egyptian physician recorded the benefits of cold water immersion in a medical papyrus. The Greeks built...
What Twenty Years of Trauma Research Got Wrong About Resilience
Resilience started as a research concept describing how people adapted to adversity and then somehow got flattened into a character quality. It became something you...
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The Difference Between Being Triggered & Being Wrong
Somewhere around 2015, the word "triggered" became a punchline. It got memed into a synonym for fragility, for thin-skinned overreaction, for people who needed to...