Sublime

“Uncle Danny, I don’t know. I’m mad all the time.” Dr. Amen asked if anyone was hurting him or teasing him or touching him inappropriately, and he said no. So Dr. Amen scanned his nephew’s brain and found a cyst the size of a golf ball occupying his left temporal lobe. His nephew was actually missing the space in his scan where his left temporal

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The arts, as you will read throughout this book, trigger the release of neurochemicals, hormones, and endorphins that offers you an emotional release. When you experience virtual reality, read poetry or fiction, see a film or listen to a piece of music, or move your body to dance, to name a few of the many arts, you are biologically changed. There

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In Denver, several public housing projects have been designed as trauma-informed spaces. The Arroyo Village is one of those: a homeless shelter that also includes low-income and affordable housing for individuals and families. When the firm Shopworks Architecture designed the interiors, they considered the future residents’ mental needs and made

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