When Vulnerability and Trauma Collide. Episode 4 of Point of View with Barry Boyce, Editor-in-Chief of Mindful Magazine, and Heather Hurlock, Senior Editor-Digital at Mindful.org, explores how mindfulness can be used to help people deal with trauma.

Twenty Two. It’s a number many people associate with veterans these days—That’s because it’s the number of veterans who commit suicide every day according to a study done by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The suicide fact sheet on the VA website says that going through trauma, or suffering from PTSD, makes people more likely to commit suicide. Just last week, a study just came out in the journal Depression and Anxiety suggesting that mindfulness practice actually changes the way the brain responds to traumatic memories.

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Point Of View: When Vulnerability and Trauma Collide

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Point Of View: When Vulnerability and Trauma Collide

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