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Loneliness

Loneliness and Your Brain with Amy Banks

March 23, 2015 by ssradmin

How hard is it to feel lonely when everyone around you seems to be part of a happy couple? Safe Space Radio talks to psychiatrist Amy Banks to find out what social isolation does to our brains, and some concrete things we can do to strengthen our ability to connect.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: brain, connection, depression, interpersonal neurobiology, isolation, Loneliness, neuroscience, psychology, withdraw

Intergenerational Loneliness with David

March 16, 2015 by ssradmin

This episode of Safe Space Radio features David talking about how he came to understand the origins of a persistent and puzzling loneliness that he’d felt since childhood.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Family and Lifecycle Tagged With: alone, caregiving, childhood, comforting, Holocaust, inherited emotion, internal family systems, Loneliness, Parents, son, survivor guilt, survivors

Race and Place (Part 2) with Natasha Wilson

November 10, 2014 by ssradmin

Anthropologist and social work student Natasha Wilson talks about being a black woman in mostly-white schools and workplaces. She remembers feeling shunned and avoided, which made it harder to deal with other adversity in her life. She also talks about how these experiences have inspired her research on Post-Traumatic Growth.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Social Justice Tagged With: anthropology, black women, blackness, community, feminism, Loneliness, psychology, race, racial justice, Racism, White Privilege, Whiteness

Race and Place (Part 1) with Natasha Wilson

November 5, 2014 by ssradmin

Natasha Wilson moved to Maine in 2012 following the tragic death of two of her brothers. She talks about how her experience of racism has been shaped by the different places she’s lived, and how she was unprepared for the alienation and hostility she has experienced in overwhelmingly white states like Iowa and Maine. We also discuss the …read more »

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Filed Under: Conflict, Social Justice Tagged With: black women, blackness, community, death and dying, Loneliness, race, racial justice, Racism, White Privilege, Whiteness

Single Child Families with Susan Newman

November 9, 2011 by ssradmin

Social psychologist and author Susan Newman talks about the stereotypes of and misinformation about only children. Studies show that only children do not suffer from the lack of siblings and even show improved academic achievement. She reports that the stereotypes of being spoiled, bossy, or lonely do not hold up to research. Only children families …read more »

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Filed Under: Family and Lifecycle Tagged With: alone, family dynamics, Loneliness, only child, only children, Parenting, personality, psychology, sibling relationships, Siblings

Trauma, Fear and Denial with Jessica Stern

February 16, 2011 by ssradmin

Research professor Jessica Stern is an expert in the connection between trauma and terrorism. In this interview she talks about her experience following a rape at age 15, and how her story was not believed by the police—resulting in more than 40 other children being targeted. Jessica describes living with PTSD, and experiencing a confusing …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: Anxiety & Fear, childhood trauma, healing, Loneliness, mental illness, police, PTSD, Rape, Rape Culture, Sexual assault, sexual violence, survivors, teenagers, terrorism, Therapy, Trauma, triggering, triggers, Violence

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