Essential Question: How do childhood experiences of trauma manifest in your adult relationships? This episode seeks to help adults realize how unprocessed childhood trauma can reveal itself in their current relationships.

In light of the recent tragedies involving several incidents of violence in schools involving students, we wanted to revisit an important discussion we had involving the mental health in our school system. Please take a listen, and also like, share, and review this episode.

Essential Question: How do educators cope with the trauma in schools while simultaneously dealing with their own personal traumas? This episode seeks to show transparency when it comes to trauma in schools and the difficulty of educators to be supportive to staff and students while also meeting their own social/emotional needs.

Essential Question: How can we welcome wellness in the workplace, especially when trauma and toxic stress meet us there and follow us home? This episode seeks to empower individuals to pull up to the relaxation station and welcome wellness in every area of their lives.

Essential Question: What can we do to help the body reset so that we can relax in stressful times? This episode seeks to empower individuals to pull up to the relaxation station and reset our bodies so that it houses positive energy and not stress and tension. Bessel van der Kolk, MD., is a physician, researcher, and teacher who specializes in trauma and toxic stress, and the overwhelming affects that these experiences have on the mind, body, and society.

Essential Question: How can we train our minds and bodies to pull up to the relaxation station regularly so that we can live well? This episode seeks to empower individuals to take back control of their busy lives and provide opportunities to increase their mental and physical wellness by scheduling time to pull into the relaxation station.

Essential Question: How can we support children in getting all in their feelings and check in with their emotions? This episode seeks to help parents and teachers to support their children with their emotional development by checking in with their emotions.

Essential Question: How do words help you talk your way through when exposed to trauma and toxic stress. This episode seeks to help listeners understand that positive self-talk can improve self-esteem, stress management, and well-being.

Essential Question: Can constantly being exposed to details and video of traumatic experiences give you PTSD? With the video release of the police brutality towards Tyre Nichols, curious minds will be seeking to witness the tragic event.  This episode discusses how constant trauma exposure causes Compassion Fatigue and impacts your mental health.

Essential Question: What can be gained by viewing behavior with a different mindset? This episode seeks to help listeners understand the benefit of having a mindset shift to understand how and why individuals act, react, and respond the way that they do.

Essential Question: How does our body's alarm system support us in traumatic times?   This episode seeks to help individuals identify when their body's alarm system is blaring and what to do about it.

Essential Question: In this climate where mental health challenges are exacerbated by the tumultuous times that we as a society are facing, what are the prevailing misconceptions around mental health? This episode is dedicated to the memory of Stephen "Twitch" Boss and seeks to bring about awareness of the mental health misconceptions to better support those who are struggling. Teaching Through the Eyes of Trauma podcast is brought to you by the Inner Ear Agency, providing professional development and consulting services to balance the healing and education of children exposed to trauma. For services, visit innerearagency.com. 

Essential Question:  How can we support children in getting all in their feelings and check in with their emotions? This episode seeks to help parents and teachers to support their children with their emotional development by checking in with their emotions.

Essential Question: How can we help individuals understand what to do with the knowledge of a trauma exposure? This episode seeks to help those who have experienced trauma to seek ways to find support for their exposure and not use it as an excuse to behave poorly.

Essential Question: What does SEL (Social Emotional Learning) look like in schools from a child's perspective? This episode seeks to see what children perceive SEL to be and what they would like to see more of in school.

Essential Question: What is the cost of children being in a constant chaotic environment? This episode seeks to help parents and educators understand the importance of providing a warm, supportive environment free of chaos.

Essential Question: How can we use co-regulation to support students with self-regulation in times of stress? This episode seeks to help educators and parents to understand their role in co-regulation to help support children.

Essential Question: How evident is the need for mental health supports in the school system and what are we doing about it? This episode seeks to bring awareness to the need for mental health supports in schools.

Essential Question: How can students tell you what's wrong, what they need, and what they've gone through by their behavior. This episode seeks to show parents and educators how to be curious and use what they observe to support students needs.

This episode, and conversation with our special guest licensed professional counselor, Amma Pennick, seeks to understand how an uncommon inheritance can affect the lives of generations. Essential question: What happens when you have trauma that is not your own?

In this episode, we are revisiting one of our most popular episodes from season 1 where myself and three other ladies, who are educators in a large urban school district, discussed the challenges teachers were facing that would lead to the current teacher shortage our nation is experiencing at this time.  I believe this episode will once again provide great information and insight to our listeners.  Listen in to our discussion.

This episode seeks to understand the value of teachers of color and find ways to recruit and retain more of these individuals. Essential question: What are some benefits, barriers, and ways to retain teachers of color?

This episode seeks to understand the trauma that Black male teachers experience and find ways to help them thrive in the educational system. Essential question: What do black male educators need to thrive in education?

This episode seeks to help adults identify how things that they have experienced in their childhood can be directly reflected in their adult behavior and relationships. Essential question:  Could your unresolved childhood trauma be leaking into your adult life?

This episode seeks to identify tools and strategies for adults to provide a safe space for children exposed to trauma and toxic stress while resisting retraumatization with their actions. Essential question: How can you resist being a source of trauma as a parent or care taker?

This episode seeks to help adults recognize those behaviors in students that can signify the presence of trauma or toxic stress. Essential question: How can educators and parents identify signs and symptoms of trauma exposure in students as they head back to school. Special guest: Samantha Brathwaite (Educator)

This episode seeks to provide tools and strategies for individuals to connect with students; especially those exposed to trauma and toxic stress. Essential Question: How can you start off the school year positively in a way to connect with students in hopes of building nurturing, buffering relationships that protect them from the impact of trauma and toxic stress?

Essential question: How can we be intentional about preparing and supporting children exposed to trauma and toxic stress during the summer break? This episode seeks to give parents and teachers tools and strategies to be proactive regarding the potential for triggering or retraumatizing experiences during and after the summer break.

How do we support children with unmet needs and broken circles? This episode seeks to give parents and teachers tools and strategies to identify needs that are not being met and what circles are broken in order to support children on their journey towards healing and resiliency.

Essential Question: How does stress impact our body? This episode seeks to educate listeners on the impact of stress and trauma in the body, and how it responds when in a state of constant stress.

In this episode, we want to revisit a very important podcast and subject that affects many people, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES).

Essential question: How can we foster wellness within ourselves and our children who have been exposed to trauma and toxic stress, so that they can be well? This episode seeks to foster wellness within individuals exposed to trauma and toxic stress; mind, body, and emotions.

Essential Question: How can we change the environment from a negative frequency to a positive frequency when in the presence of children exposed to trauma? This episode seeks to support educators and parents to change the frequency of the room by pouring into a child's need for mastery by speaking to their potential.

Essential Question:  How can we provide the support needed to build the emotional resilience antibodies in our children and students? This episode seeks to be a resilience guide for parents and educators to support their children through adversity.

This episode seeks to help educators to be a space of healing and restoration for students who have been exposed to trauma while not allowing residual effects.

Essential Question: How can we take our students on a journey to Copeville? This episode seeks to provide parents, educators, and community leaders with tools and strategies to provide space and opportunity for students to practice coping mechanisms and experience resilience.

Our essential question for this week's podcast is, "Does experiencing trauma in childhood put you at a greater risk for suicide?" This week we are joined by our special guest, Ebony Robinson, a licensed clinical social worker in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.  The goal of this episode is to remove the stigma of mental health challenges that we all face and normalize the healing process, including therapy. Listen in to the conversation!

This week's essential question: What makes a person's trauma valid? This episode seeks to help you understand that you yourself, your students, children, or young adults can experience trauma in different ways. Validating those traumas will allow you to begin the healing process for yourself and/or your children.

This week's essential question: "Is toxic stress and trauma causing a mass exodus in the field of education?" This week I am joined by three wonderful ladies who have experienced education from various aspects, from the classroom to the front office.  Listen in as we discuss the state of emergency happening now in the field of education.

This week we will be addressing the essential question, "How can you prevent re-traumatization of those who have experienced trauma?  This episode features our special guest, Kamisha Harris. Please, take a listen.

The essential question we aim to answer in this episode is "Are all traumas the same?"  Take a listen.