Thousands of veterans and active-duty service members are suffering from mental health conditions originating from their military service. In her blog for Psychology Today, Elaine Miller-Karas discusses how peer-to-peer interventions can be created to integrate within the usual system of mental health service and how a pilot study of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® significantly decreased distress and increased well-being.
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The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) comprises six wellness skills aimed at nurturing individual and community resilience. In her blog for Psychology Today, Elaine Miller-Karas’ discusses how these skills can serve as a framework for wellness practices, integrating seamlessly into daily activities to enhance well-being by cultivating body literacy and leveraging positive life experiences to foster inner balance.
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"Ted Lasso" inspired with imperfect, endearing characters whose trials and transformations mirrored our own. In her blog for Psychology Today, Elaine Miller-Karas’ discusses what she has termed the “Rebecca Effect” which can serve as a beacon of hope for anyone who has felt marginalized, oppressed, shamed, and subjected to micro- and macro-aggressions.
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No one possesses the power to strip away our intrinsic worth, identity, and dignity. In her blog for Psychology Today, Elaine Miller-Karas discusses how resilient, dignified individuals weave compassion and empathy into their lives, even in moments of pain.
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How might mindfulness practices unexpectedly connect with a traumatic experience? And how might offering choices to adults and children about how mindfulness practice is introduced reduce distress? Elaine Miller-Karas answers these questions in her blog for Psychology Today.
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How does body literacy — the skill of attuning ourselves to sensations originating from within our bodies — help us develop deeper states of well-being? Elaine Miller-Karas answers this question in her blog for Psychology Today.
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On Tuesday, December 19th, we gathered as a community to honor our 2023 Ambassadors of the Year: Samuel Habimana, Inez Tiger, and EdCamp Ukraine. Elaine Miller-Karas hosted the event during which, each ambassador shared insights into their impactful work with TRI.
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During the most recent CRM Global Consultation, TRI's leaders, Co-Founder, Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW, and CEO, Michael Sapp, Ph.D., outlined the Trauma Resource Institute's journey during 2023. The year has been filled with tragedy, heartache, and healing. They shared the projects initiated by TRI and how its mission is being actualized in many places around the world to mitigate the suffering from gun violence, disasters and war.
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Many young people are extremely worried about climate change and can worry that they have no future. In her blog for Psychology Today, Elaine Miller-Karas identifies ways to help young people feel less powerless.
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This is Part 2 of Elaine Miller-Karas’ interview with Kathleen Wheeler, Ph.D., past president of the EMDR International Association and a psychiatric nurse practitioner. They discuss how the somatic-based skills of the Trauma Resiliency Model can be integrated into EMDR therapy.
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This is Part 1 of Elaine Miller-Karas’ interview with Kathleen Wheeler, Ph.D., past president of the EMDR International Association and a psychiatric nurse practitioner. They discuss how the somatic-based skills of the Trauma Resiliency Model can be integrated into EMDR therapy.
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On May 30-31, 2023, Glasswing International hosts its annual virtual mental health conference in collaboration with Catalyst 2030! TRI’s Co-Founder, Director of Innovation, and key developer of TRM and CRM, Elaine Miller-Karas, will be leading a panel discussion titled Working with Trauma: The Community Resiliency Model.
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What is the Stress Spectrum and how can sensory awareness, or interoception, be a portal to self-healing ? Elaine Miller-Karas answers these questions in her blog for Psychology Today.
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In the second edition of Building Resilience to Trauma, the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models, Elaine Miller-Karas explains the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) and the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) and how they help reframe many of our experiences from shame and pathology to hope and biology.
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What is “tend and befriend” and why is it important to know? Elaine Miller-Karas answers this question and explains how understanding survival responses can help trauma survivors heal.
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We are now in our tenth month of supporting our colleagues at EdCamp Ukraine in their efforts to bring light and healing into very dark times for their country and communities. As the most recent surge of attacks remind us, the need for trauma-informed and resiliency-informed care is of utmost importance.
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Today is World Mental Health Day and the theme this year is “Make Mental Health and Wellbeing for All a Global Priority.” Now more than ever, we need to work tirelessly to bring the wellness skills of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® and the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM)® to professionals and natural leaders.
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Elaine Miller-Karas launched her new radio show, Resiliency Within on January 11, 2021, on Voiceamerica.com.
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Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW, was a guest on Over It and On With It, a regular podcast by Christine Hassler.
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