by Evan Dwan | Jun 10, 2021 | News |
The future of every society depends on the healthy development of the next generation. This process can be thrown off kilter by excessive or prolonged activation of the stress response. Toxic stress can have a negative impact on learning, behaviour and health...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 10, 2021 | News |
Robert Sapolsky writes that childhood is a time when we make assessments about the nature of the world – assessments that we often keep forever. At the end of WW2 ‘The Dutch hunger winter’ occurred. AS the Nazi’s retreated they cut off all food supplies and for a...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 10, 2021 | News |
The psychiatrist Bruce Perry describes regulation as about being in balance. Stress is what occurs when a challenge takes us out of balance. We become dysregulated where we experience distress and discomfort. Finding balance again – becoming regulated – is rewarding...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 3, 2021 | News |
The convergence of crises in the world are symptoms of a deep malaise within our collective cultures. We have become habituated to a level of dysfunction that we come to think of as normal and that ‘this is just the way the world is’. Humans are by nature selfish,...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 1, 2021 | News |
The numerous signs of dysfunction we witness in the world around us can be thought of as symptoms that signal a deep malaise at the heart of our modern culture. There are signs that this culture is creaking under high levels of distress expressing itself in numerous...
