Picture your brain as a staircase. Each step is a stage of physical brain development which starts in the womb and ends, on a physical level, around age 25. Each stair step going up is an advanced ...

There is a question that I have gotten increasingly often over the last few years. It pops up in a couple of different versions, but they all look something like this: Will [insert singular ...

In last week’s article, we discussed how traumatic moments often affect the brain/body in ways that become strongly patterned. Two critical conclusions were noted: First, the immediate response to ...

Maayan Aviv, CEO, American Friends of NATAL, is a nonprofit leader with 15+ years of experience, driving impact in mental health treatment. When trauma hits, it impacts all parts of an individual’s ...