by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Sep 28, 2023 | Blog
CANDICE LIOZU Pioneering Unprecedented Growth and Excellence DEAR FRIENDS, In a significant stride towards realizing our grand vision of transforming the Arizona Trauma Institute into a globally renowned beacon of healing and resilience, we are thrilled to announce...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Mar 3, 2023 | Blog
LESSONS FROM TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE LIFE COACH TRAINING As a Trauma and Resilience Life Coaching program trainer and facilitator, I have gained a new understanding of humanity. Every participant in our program has faced adversity, lost a loved one in tragic...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog
Injured, But Not Defeated There, in an ancient text lies a statement of profound truth, with far-reaching implications. It reads, “*But the more they were oppressed, the more they increased…* (Exodus 1:12).” More than 4000 years later this hope finds a renewed...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Jan 15, 2023 | Blog
Using The Salutogenic Approach Neurodiversity is complicated and often misunderstood. Oftentimes, people with neurodiversities are wrongly labeled or stigmatized—sometimes even by those who are close to them. There’s a better way to interact with these...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Dec 31, 2022 | Blog
How The Drive For Organizational Efficiency Destroys Trauma-Informed Care I sat in a meeting of leaders from a variety of nonprofits that provide services to the mental health community. The meeting progressed, and as it did so a stunning feeling of...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Nov 16, 2022 | Blog
Home is the foundation of a healthy life, including mental health… …and no other instrumentality (therapy or social services) can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions. Many professionals in the mental health field provide services for youth...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Nov 11, 2022 | Blog
AND CHALLENGES CHANGE US It is true we grow from meeting the challenge and many live for the adventure that accompanies change, but there are those who are quickly overwhelmed when their expectations are met with surprise. Even those who like to be astonished...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Oct 14, 2022 | Blog
A New Approach to Helping Others In the early 1970s, cognitive psychologist George Kelly developed the idea of expectancy, which posits that WE TEND TO GET MORE OF WHAT WE FOCUS ON. This theory has important implications for those of us in the helping...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog
From Adversity to Asset-Based Thinking THE FIELD OF COUNSELING IS SHIFTING. For too long, the focus has been on what is wrong with the client. This deficit-based thinking has served to pathologize clients and label them as damaged goods. However, a new movement...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Sep 24, 2022 | Blog
Trauma, toxic stress, and histories of adversity all have this in common, they are directly linked to a person’s physiology and at the center are stress biochemical hormones like cortisol, adrenaline, noradrenaline, and testosterone. Our hormones are an essential...
