Bring the Light In, a tribute to the unsung heroes of mental health: The Case Managers
This amazing women from ACT, come into the patient’s darkness. These heroines do this often as their day-to-day, uplifting them and bringing light into their […]
Parents and Teachers: The Unfair Burden
School shootings and gun violence are painful crises that are out of control in America. These incidents seem to happen more often than not. Every […]
Equality for Mental Health!
School shootings in the U.S. are a significant problem nationwide. However, in my opinion, the more substantial issue is the mental health crisis and lack […]
STORYTELLING, MEDICAL EDUCATION, AND LEADERSHIP (painting the fence)
Storytelling is the most frequently used form of communicating information or experiences with others and has been around for about 100,000 years. We continue using […]
Growing Pains: School Shootings in America
School shootings have steadily increased in the U.S. since the 1980s. Born in 1995, I grew up in an America that has experienced the trauma […]
American School Shootings in 3, 2, 1…
The final part of this issue is the individual himself. Julia Villela School shootings have become a thought to fear in this era. With the […]
It Wasn’t Me: A Millennial’s Perspective on School Shootings
Reflecting on my youth, I can recall many of my previous classmates who had absent parents, less-than-ideal home lives, access to guns, and were enrolled […]
Thoughts on the Parkland Shooter’s Sentencing
Today the fight against school shootings is marked by the recent judgment and sentencing of the Parkland School Shooter. Whatever our idea of justice is […]
How to deal with anxiety related to mass shootings?
“With fear and anxiety, I dropped my children at school that next morning, having to convince myself repeatedly during the day that what I imagined […]
Collective Trauma and Response
These repeated mass school shootings over the last 20 years have left our society in a sort of paralysis. Many wonder how we can move […]