Offering ongoing workshops on a wide range of topics dealing with preventing and healing from burnout; on connection and transformation. We have an informative Facebook page as well. #selfcareinhealthcare @OntariosDoctors @CMA_Docs @OMSAofficial https://t.co/IUkdClIe6u

"The Words Come Last." Linda Thai speaking at the Collective Trauma Summit. https://t.co/1Cy3bhtOPU

"And so there came, for Raff, a dawning awareness of a kind of peril within him, one his father had recognized far earlier and sought to subdue."

One way to release anger & perhaps a prompt to take a closer look at @juleshorn01 We have to face (and feel in an embodied way) our emotions before we let them go. https://t.co/ZtldyiUALi

"Nobody can “treat” abuse, rape, molestation, or any other horrendous event. What has happened can’t be undone. But what we can treat are the imprints of the trauma on body, mind, and soul." https://t.co/nxyEmSmW8N

It was a chaotic road, but spending all that time with books nourished my imagination. I’m grateful for my time in public libraries—it made me who I am today."

"When I was a teenage dropout, I never imagined that I could graduate from university, let alone pursue a graduate degree. Looking back, I see that librarians were my teachers, and I had a world full of textbooks at my disposal.

"My school life and mental health were in ruins, but I always looked forward to going to the library." https://t.co/SSnDL71fQy

We could wonder (and take a good guess) about outcomes here as the Canadian health care system fails more and more people. https://t.co/aBdrHC7opl

"The term medical model doesn’t help clarify any of this. It leads to circular definitions and semantic arguments. People keep redefining it to fit their preferred conclusions, so they can attack it or defend it."

the value of diverse, inclusive designs informed by lived experiences to create supportive mental health spaces." https://t.co/DsFmuO5OI2

"Across orientations, comfort was considered to be a core community need, defined by interpersonal factors like acceptance and freedom from judgement, and spatial factors like relaxing environments. These findings underscore

"When our mind remembers, our body is free to forget." On the healing of intergenerational trauma. Perhaps not always (because of the nature of the deep brain), but this certainly takes us a considerable way along the road to somatic, emotional and psychological healing.

Processing means moving towards our pain and making connections (when our innate tendency is to do the opposite). Two beautiful souls - Thomas Hubl and Galit Atlas - in dialogue on Day 1 of the Collective Trauma Summit. https://t.co/9KitlnDePH

forgotten that obligation is actually one of the greatest experiences of a human’s life, because obligation comes from intimacy. When you connect deeply with the world and people around you, you are called into service. ~ Marc Gafni

worldview. We see this worldview being shared by many of the most influential thought and business leaders of our time. And it is hugely problematic, because it creates a world where individuals can hoard hundreds of billions of dollars while their neighbors starve. We have

In today’s post-modern world, higher educational facilities preach that there is no way to prove that humans have any sort of real obligation to one another. Instead, they say that “it’s nice to do nice things and care for others, but it’s not necessary.” That is a dangerous

This is Maria Shriver at her best. Consider reading the full piece: https://t.co/svMpzDm2WF

And when people in power stop listening, the results are devastating. Systems collapse. Trust erodes. But when we, the people, stop listening and speaking up for what we need and believe in, that’s when democracy begins to drift into dysfunction.

Do you dare allow yourself to listen for the sounds of peace? Listen. When you are quiet, what can you hear? ...

The Dalai Lama said it best: “When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.” In Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper.