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Editor, journalist & media consultant passionate about speaking up for those who cannot speak for themselves.

[Maxine Caine @CaineMaxine]

A fantastic visual representation of the Trauma Summit conference. Lovely to chat to @carolinebrown31 as she worked on this. @actiontrauma #traumasummit2024

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When cues of safety outweigh cues of danger, connections is possible. When cues of danger outweigh cues of safety, survival strategies activate and we get stuck - Deb Dana #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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When you recover, it is a transformative event. Just as trauma can have long-lasting changes so too recovery can result in lasting change. @RachelYehuda #TramuaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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Indigenous wisdom tells us that health rest on a balance between the mental, physical, social and spiritual quadrants of our lives. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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We make the mistake of translating societal “norms” as healthy and natural. We have to challenge the myth of normal. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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If the environment is incapable of nurturing that sense of significance, the person may become a "helper" so that they gain a sense of value and significance. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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"Your healing is our healing" - indigenous communities understand the connection between us & the inter-connectedness of mind, body & spirit. Western 'civilisation' denies of our essential connections & suppresses the true self. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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Only when compassion is present will people allow themselves to see the truth. When you are not experiencing compassion, it is because you are feeling some pain which is blocking or hindering you. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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Three templates for parenting: Authoritarian (punitive, threatening, controlling), Permissive (no limits and boundaries – the child doesn’t feel safe). Children need loving parenting with necessary boundaries to provide safety. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024
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Anger is necessary because it is a boundary defence. A child needs to be safe to be angry. Before you can say "yes" meaningfully, you need to learn to say "no". @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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We were wired for emotions from birth (fear, anger, love, grief, playfulness, joy) and we need to support the natural development of these emotions by creating a safe environment. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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We do not have to be determined and controlled by the past. But in order NOT to be dominated by all those early influences, it takes a lot of work. .
@DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

[Marie Halpin SLT @mariechalpin]

“We are nothing more or less than the sum of that which we could not control – our biology, our environments, their interactions” - Sapolsky
Cannot separate mind from body from social experience in the world. Trauma has multiple impacts on psyche, physiology etc #TraumaSummit2024

[Marie Halpin SLT @mariechalpin]

A privilege to hear @DrGaborMate speak about trauma, & acknowledge Ireland’s history of conflict & trauma, 26 years on from The Good Friday Agreement. We cannot change the past so we must focus on a healing future, which will be an ongoing journey #TraumaSummit2024 #Trauma

[Marie Halpin SLT @mariechalpin]

Concious agency moves us from traumatic past, to healing in the present to hopeful future. We are conditioned and determined by our history but we can heal and change physiology. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 #ActionTrauma2024 #trauma

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Children can be hurt not only when bad things happen, but also when good things that should happen, don’t happen. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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The prevention of addiction, of depression, of auto immune diseases & more needs to begin at the first antenatal visit. The more stressed the mother feels, the more negatively that baby will be affected. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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Being lonely is as much of a risk factor for illness as smoking. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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If I’m in trouble and stressed, my first instinct will be to seek help but if that is not available, then we go into flight or fight and if that is not available we dissociate (freeze). @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma

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Trauma is not what happened to you (the traumatic events). Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of traumatic events. Trauma is the wounded self that believes you are not good enough because of what happened. @DrGaborMate #TraumaSummit2024 @actiontrauma