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Head of Advocacy @unicef #NYC. Author. Senior Fellow @unibirmingham Dad #THFC. Opinions Mine. Trauma Proof is out now. Literary Representation Foliolit NYC

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Benjamin Perks
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Book signing with My little helper #TraumaProof
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Benjamin Perks
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Thrilled to be taking all things Trauma-Proof to in Palm Beach this week. Be part of the event at The Breakers—or join us online—on September 9 🗓️ September 9, 2025 🕞 3:30 PM 💻 Join us in-person or virtually via Zoom 🎟️ Register today—space is limited!
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Ben Jacobs
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🚨 Spurs confirm Xavi Simons has joined from Leipzig on a 5+2 contract. €60m fee. Spurs finalised the agreement on Thursday after Xavi travelled to London and made it clear he was open to join.🇳🇱 🗣️ Xavi: “I will bring flair to the team but also hard work and discipline.”
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Benjamin Perks
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‘Most baby boomer’s parents didn’t go to secondary school. In contrast, the baby boomers all went to secondary school and nearly half of their children continued in education after 18. That is an extraordinary leap in educational status across three generations.’ @ElizaFilby
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Mr Black
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💣🚨 Spurs are advancing by advancing their advancements, advancing on an advanced advancement with Eze, already advanced from advanced advancements in advanced talks, advancing further advanced advancements while advancing the most advanced advancements yet, advancing beyond
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Benjamin Perks
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‘What I have learned in interviewing people about trauma, in order to be able to speak you need a public place and you need to be asked’ @kavpuri #vjday2025 Remembering those who served & suffered in silence with @TinaDaheley on @BBCRadio2
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Benjamin Perks
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My heart goes out to all those affected by the fires in Montenegro. I am inspired by the firefighters' courage and the public solidarity with the victims. 🇲🇪
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Benjamin Perks
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‘If you have a depressed parent you are more likely to be depressed because you were raised by a parent who couldn’t meet your emotional needs, because they couldn’t meet their own emotional needs because someone didn’t meet their emotional needs.’ @EricaKomisarCSW
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𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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Bullying isn’t “just part of growing up.” It changes how kids see the world — and themselves. 💔 Chronic anxiety 💔 Low self-worth 💔 Trouble trusting others 💔 Even PTSD The pain doesn’t end when the bullying stops. That’s why healing matters. #BullyingAwareness #Trauma
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Degrading, humiliating and abusive language directed at children can have long-term mental health impacts at least as severe as those associated with physical abuse
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Analysis suggests long-term damage to wellbeing can be worse than for children experiencing physical abuse
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Benjamin Perks
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A neighbor is as "New York" as a bagel She said 'I'm almost done reading your book. I'm loving the cadence, it's very readable & you're dropping all this science but you ain't comin off as an EGGHEAD." She emphasized the word EGGHEAD with hand motions in the shape of a giant egg,
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Benjamin Perks
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Loved doing this podcast on Trauma Proof with Warren Larkin
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The Psycho-Social · Episode
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Benjamin Perks
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The North America version of Trauma Proof is now available It is now available in print, kindle and audible, in English, almost everywhere.! I am humbled and heartened by the wonderful reviews and feedback so far. If you have read it, please consider leaving a review on
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Nyle Beck
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We can’t ever FULLY understand someone else’s journey. Or their triggers, their trauma, or their healing. Each of us has a unique lens and lived experience. When we judge what we don’t fully understand, it signals we’ve slipped into our unconscious mind. And it’s not good for us.
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@Lionesses
Lionesses
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"England are crowned queens of European football again!" 😍 Re-live it all! 👇🍿
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Gary Shteyngart
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On a train bound for vermont, everyone looks like Solzhenitsyn.
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Benjamin Perks
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We cannot think without anxiety. It just has to be proportionate to the context
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Katherine Everitt 💥
2 months
One of the biggest mistakes we’ve made is to demonize anxiety. Anxiety is the ontological affect par excellence. It brings us face to face with nothingness. It opens us up to the possibility of reorienting in a topsy-turvy world. We cannot think without anxiety.
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Catherine Russell
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Our thanks to everyone who donated to protect children from diseases. UNICEF continues to deliver for @gavi, working with countries to develop immunization strategies, lower vaccine costs, and rolling out lifesaving vaccines, including to children caught in conflict or disaster.
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Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
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We’re thrilled to announce that today’s Global Summit: Health & Prosperity through Immunisation saw a record number of donors pledges, securing more than US $9bn of our total 2026-30 requirement of US$ 11.9bn! #ForOurFuture
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