Ginger Healy explains the benefits of Gratitude in SLC

Ginger Healy on Therapy Thursdays on ABC4

Ginger Healy, ATN’s Program Director was on Therapy Thursdays on Good Things Utah on Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate – ABC4. “Healy says everyone agrees that gratitude is important, but did you know that it’s a tool for improvement of well-being and even a healing strategy? Feeling gratitude and expressing it causes synchronized activation in […]

Costume Bingo — Monday Night @ 7:30 pm

Sandra the dinosaur livens up Bingo Night

Ready for some Bingo — Laughter – Prizes – and Delicious Dessert? ATN’s Board of Directors invites you to Costume Bingo – Monday, Feb 19 @ 7:30 pm.  What is Costume Bingo you ask?  We don’t know, but we can’t wait to find out. Stop by Exhibitor Booths throughout Sunday and Monday to gather additional […]

Join Us for #ATNCares on Giving Tuesday

Mark your calendar for Tuesday, December 1, 2020.  ATN will once again take part in the nationwide Giving Tuesday Campaign. Focusing on #OneCaringAdult, ATN is spotlighting the importance that a caring adult who is present and nurturing can have on the life of EVERY child to build healthy attachment and resilience.  This year, more than […]

Coming Soon to the ATN Blog…

So last week I got all clever talking about “Trauma Tuesday,” only to have this Tuesday be, well, traumatic! Have no fear, though. The blog will be back this weekend with a new post from ATN‘s very own Julie Beem, writing about scar tissue and what our brains believe. Two weeks ago, we introduced a […]

15 Gifts that Promote Attachment and Bonding

–by Sara Borgstede (originally posted on the author’s blog, The Holy Mess, on November 14, 2017) Have you recently given birth to a baby or brought a new family member into your home through foster care or adoption? Maybe you are a relative or friend looking for Christmas gifts for a new little one in […]

It’s Not Always Depression, Sometimes It’s the Holidays

Sometimes it's the holidays, not depression

–by Hilary Jacobs Hendel There are many myths and “shoulds” about how families and holidays should be: Families should love each other. Families should get along. Holidays should be fun…To name but a few. The fact is: Many people do not have happy families, happy family memories or happy holidays. Therefore, holidays and families may […]

Head. Heart. Repeat.

Brain and heart on a seesaw, Brain lower, heart higher

–by Hilary Jacobs Hendel, originally published on the author’s blog, May 17, 2016 Manager’s note: I’ve lately been in a particularly tough and sometimes dark place as a trauma mama, partly with my kids’ stuff, partly with my own. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get my kids to try this, but it […]

Facing the mess as me

–by Laura Dennis, originally published on the author’s own blog, Les Pensées du chat noir [This is not the ATN post of the week, but rather an explanation of why it isn’t (yet) here. And after last week’s post on caregiver stress, I thought this could maybe be of help to some.] We all have […]