Healing Despair and Moral Injury in Educators – Regulated & Relational Ep 106
For those who are not yet listeners to ATN’s podcast, Regulated & Relational, this new episode could be a great place to start. In Episode 106, Sheri Kreher, LCSW and the Trauma, Illness, and Grief (TIG) Coordinator for 24 school districts through the Genesee BOCES gives us her insight into Moral Injury and how this […]
From Attachment & Trauma Network on Most Recent School Shooting Tragedy
We at the Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc. (ATN) are heart-broken by the most recent school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. While school shootings have become commonplace in the United States, they should never be normalized, but understood as the preventable tragedies that they are. Often rooted in trauma, the causes of these […]
Navigating the Holiday Season: A Guide for Caregivers
As the holiday season approaches, images of cozy gatherings, festive feasts, and joyous celebrations fill our minds. However, for many caregivers of children impacted by trauma, attachment disorders, and neurodivergence, this time of year can evoke anxiety rather than excitement. Instead of cheer, there may be a wave of stress, as the holidays can bring […]
Lessons Learned During the Pandemic that can Help This Year’s Holiday Season
Here we are again, full-swing in the 2023 Holiday Season! In a post-covid world, where everything already feels more overwhelming than ever before, how can we not only survive, but thrive during the holidays? Well, I learned a great deal during the 2020 Holiday Season. So as the anxiety builds this year, I need to […]
My Why: A Tribute
When my mom died in 2021, I was catapulted into a foreign land of grief and hurt. Those who have lost close loved ones will recall the intensity of those first few days of grieving, when it is hard to eat or even breathe or to complete simple tasks – let alone the complicated logistics […]
My Why: Healing from Trauma
My introduction to ATN was not as an educator, but as a survivor of childhood trauma. I had recently retired from a 40-year career in education and was searching for answers. The previous year, I had found myself on a therapist’s couch where a tsunami of repressed memories buried under layers of dissociative coping skills […]
Business as Usual…Except more Sorrow and Resolve
For nearly 30 years ATN has been in the trenches with children significantly impacted by early childhood trauma…now understood as developmental trauma, attachment trauma, relationship trauma. Our roots are working with children who struggled due to very early abuse, neglect, maltreatment – including abandonment, witnessing violence and horrific mistreatment. But the truth is, many children […]
ATN’s COVID-19 Response
TOUCHING TRAUMA AT ITS HEART EMPOWERING TRAUMA-INFORMED FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND COMMUNITIES You are not alone ATN knows that the social distancing going on now can be VERY unsettling for our children impacted by trauma. Their early adversities cause them heightened anxiety when there are changes and when the adults in their world seem tense. Yet, […]
Focusing on Attachment: What Else I Didn’t Know
What happens once you know? What comes after “you don’t know what you don’t know,” anyway? Well, now, I think it’s “when you know better, you do better,” but that is now, not then. Back then, it took several steps. First, I had to grasp that I had more to figure out about my amazingly […]
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
“You don’t know what you don’t know” In my parent group for those whose children think differently, a favorite phrase is “you don’t know what you don’t know.” This phrase has come to reassure me as I look back over the years. I carried guilt that I could never do enough and worried that I […]