Heart Breaking News

How Trauma-Informed Journalism Can Help Us Navigate These Times

Yellow flowers arranged on the grass in the shape of a heart
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We live in times of breaking news that breaks the heart, when that which breaks is not just world events, but us, living and navigating a painful world.

As we near the year’s anniversary of the declaration of a global pandemic, I’ve been thinking a lot about what, exactly, has changed in the past…

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