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The Re-entry Roadmap: Find Your Best Next Step After Living Abroad
Are you returning “home” after living, working or studying abroad? Warning: for most people, re-entry (repatriation) is the hardest part of the ent ...
Marijuana worse for teen brains than alcohol, study finds
Cannabis causes lasting cognitive impairment in adolescents, according to Canadian researchers.
By: Shamard Charles, MD
The Brush Foundation Study of Child Growth and Development. I: Psychometric Tests
This is the first of a series of reports of a study of growth and development of children, originally organized and directed by T. Wingate Todd. Pe ...
Raised on a Diet of Internet Porn: The Neurological Consequences of Long-term Addiction
This presentation was given at the 2016 Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit in Houston, TX, hosted by The National Center on Sexual Exploit ...
How Porn Use Becomes an Addiction (Simplified!)
Internet porn—used regularly and often—chemically and structurally changes the brain. These brain changes are consistent with the brain changes tha ...
With the rise of legal weed, drug education moves from ‘don’t’ to ‘delay’
In states with ubiquitous weed access drug education programs take new approach.
By: Carrie Feibel
The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse knows no religious or social boundaries. The Wounded Heart is an intensely personal and specific look at this form of abuse. Dr. Allen ...
Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
If you are going to buy only one book on grief, this is the one to get! It will validate your grief experience, and you can share it with your chil ...
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neg ...
Trauma And Addiction
Addressing only the psychology of addiction is not enough. Addiction is a very complex condition and the treatment to address addiction needs to be ...
Former child New Tribes Mission members speak out on alleged sex abuse
A group of women, whose parents joined the massive Evangelical group known as New Tribes Mission when they were children, open up to NBC’s Kate Sno ...
Telling My Story: Sexual Abuse on the Mission Field
Today’s post has been submitted anonymously as a follow up to a piece published here, at A Life Overseas, in 2013. Today we hear from the daughter ...