When mass trauma strikes, faith leaders are called to guide & sustain communities. Their role is to help us heal. But who heals the healers? @odysseyimpactNY
Today we had the opportunity to amplify the important dialogue around healing our healers.
We screened Episode 5: Faith Leaders as First and Second Responders at The National September 11 Memorial & Museum followed by an incredible panel of featured faith leaders and experts
To combat the staggering rise in #domesticviolence, @Shah_Megs + Fairuz Ahmed joined forces last July with a group of survivors, advocates and technologists to launch #TheParasolCooperative. “Protecting lives through technology” https://t.co/Qnc9o59yoR
To combat the staggering rise in #domesticviolence, @Shah_Megs + Fairuz Ahmed joined forces last July with a group of survivors, advocates and technologists to launch #TheParasolCooperative. “Protecting lives through technology” https://t.co/Qnc9o59yoR
February is #BlackHistoryMonth.
Black History is made EVERY DAY.
Black survivors of abuse throughout history, including Harriet Jacobs, Recy Taylor, and Anita Hill, are heroes EVERY DAY.
Until abuse is history, Black survivors deserve to be heard EVERY DAY.
It’s not every day that a short film resonates across the 🌎, connecting w. people of all different ages + backgrounds. 'If Anything Happens I Love You' centers on parents struggling with the death of their daughter in the aftermath of a school shooting. https://t.co/zobyOAu0hU
“Who will we be together?” This Live Town Hall conversation with faith leaders and change makers included special guests from @onbeing + @RNS as we considered together how we listen, learn, and move forward in the face of deep national divisions. https://t.co/1cXphnRsYG
Women of Hope is a faith-based nonprofit that helps women transition from the military, incarceration, #domesticviolence and other types of trauma. Founder Sheila Locatelli considers it a divine assignment. https://t.co/UqgVMHp27H
This year has already proved to be the emotional equivalent of an ultramarathon. Here are some quick stress-reducing strategies. https://t.co/YAnwGVHyuW
“Casting all your care upon Him because He careth for you.” - 1 Peter 5:7.
It is a verse that brings him comfort. As a prison chaplain, Steven A. Johnson also uses it to bring comfort to the inmates, especially during these trying times. https://t.co/dCoLNtUnKy
In communities struggling with poverty and gun violence, the coronavirus has only inflamed the difficulties that many families already were enduring. https://t.co/wXbRzhreBZ
Across the country, spiritual leaders and religious thinkers are grappling with how to encourage healing for the past and fortitude for the future. via @nytimes#HealingTheHealers https://t.co/Q5yMcacVNc
To help you make the best of the holidays this year, @RELEVANT offers 5 tips for managing your stress and bolstering your mental health. https://t.co/ZElpsfBTy4
2020 has been quite a year. Everyone is ready for it to be over, with hope 2021 brings better things. Have you asked yourself how you're doing? Dr. Sue Baars offers some help with a mental & emotional health checkup https://t.co/o8qrhuFruZ
A group of people at risk in prisons include chaplains, who are there providing care and hope during the pandemic. (via @MarshallProj) #HealingTheHealers https://t.co/jhbI96tFLc
Fmr. acting CDC Director @DrRichBesser tells those who may feel “pandemic fatigue” around the holidays, ”Set your sights on next Christmas. Set your sights on 2021. And just imagine what a joyous Christmas it's going to be...if everyone you love is still around to celebrate it”
40 years ago today, John Huston's 1946 PTSD documentary 'Let There Be Light' was finally shown publicly in the US. For the way it shows that trauma is not something to be shrugged off or bottled in, it's on this list of films about healthy living:
https://t.co/bSn9Xi0ciL
The inability for people to come together to grieve the death of their loved ones to COVID-19 is having profound psychological effects that could last for years, one clinical psychologist says.
https://t.co/TahYZgMPGD
"I know about sadness. I come from a hard life, and maybe that’s why I was drawn to this. My father was a mean man. He’d beat my mom all night and then demand his breakfast. She’d stand there bleeding, cooking his eggs." — #MaryJoCopeland https://t.co/CARZHGT1Xu