Living Ubuntu

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I'm looking forward to speaking at the library Arlington, VA on Wednesday evening at 6pm and hope to see you there if you're in town.

"Don’t Kill That Bug: New Research Shows Insects Do Have Feelings and Emotions Just Like You"

Dont Kill That Bug: New Research Shows Insects Feel Emotions Just Like You Do you practice catch and release? Then you'll definitely want to show this to all your friends who don't. Turns out insects are a whole lot more like us than previously thought.

"School’s out: how climate change is already badly affecting children’s education"

School’s out: how climate change is already badly affecting children’s education Teaching children about the environmental crisis can help fight climate change, but climate change is already negatively affecting children’s education around the globe.

"Caroline Hickman, a psychotherapist, climate psychology researcher and board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, says, “I would worry about people who aren’t distressed – given that this is what is happening, how come?” She believes that people are using psychological defences such as denial “as a way of coping and reducing the fear that they feel”. This can leave the climate-anxious with a sense of isolation, frustration and abandonment, as others tell themselves, “Oh, well, the government will save us; technology will save us; if it was that bad, somebody would have done something,” she says. “Those are all rationalisations against existential terror of annihilation – and that’s the reality of what we’re potentially looking at.”"

‘I was enjoying a life that was ruining the world’: can therapy treat climate anxiety? People are increasingly looking for help to deal with feelings of fear, helplessness and guilt amid the climate crisis. But can therapists make a difference and is seeking treatment just a form of denial?

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Wisdom of Trauma - Trauma Talk Series 2 - Day 2 - Part 3 Wisdom of Trauma - Trauma Talk Series 2 - Day 2 - Part 3Climate Crisis, Fragmentation and Collective Trauma w/ Bayo Akomolafe, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Angaa...

Burke Harris said: "We have to help health care providers understand how trauma affects people's health. It is just like lead poisoning. Doctors can do medical treatment to help reduce the impact of lead on someone's health. But the real answer is to get lead out of the paint."
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Harrell said that even during sleep, the brain may still process acts of racism and that blood pressure, which for many people goes down during rest, may not among Blacks.

Black Americans experience deadly stress as a pandemic and violent racism collide, experts say "...The disproportionate death rate of black and brown people from Covid-19 is no coincidence. It is directly related to the history of racial oppression in our nation."

"The Covid-19 pandemic could inflict long-lasting psychological trauma on an unprecedented scale, according to a study being done by researchers from Case Western Reserve University. They are looking at how the crisis is affecting Americans’ mental health and coping strategies. So far they have compiled data from more than 800 respondents and they plan to follow up six months after the survey."

New Study Sees Unprecedented Trauma from the Pandemic But there's good news: You can grow from the crisis

'We're losing our kids': Black youth su***de rate rising far faster than for whites; coronavirus, police violence deepen trauma

'We're losing our kids': Black youth su***de rate rising far faster than for whites; coronavirus, police violence deepen trauma Dr. Terry Jarrett said she stresses "alternatives" to su***de, helping young patients recognize "there a reason for you to live."

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"Ubuntu is a concept that we have in our Bantu languages at home. Ubuntu is the essence of being a person. It means that we are people through other people. We cannot be fully human alone. We are made for interdependence, we are made for family. When you have ubuntu, you embrace others. You are generous, compassionate. If the world had more ubuntu, we would not have war. We would not have this huge gap between the rich and the poor. You are rich so that you can make up what is lacking for others. You are powerful so that you can help the weak, just as a mother or father helps their children..."

~Bishop Desmond Tutu

“People in African countries experience eco-anxiety differently because climate change for us is about the impacts that we are already experiencing now and the possibilities of the situation getting worse,” she said.

‘Overwhelming and terrifying’: the rise of climate anxiety Experts concerned young people’s mental health particularly hit by reality of the climate crisis