Unbroken

A profound new approach to healing trauma, grounded in a radical reframing of how we understand this nearly universal experience.

With Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong, Dr. McDonald overturns the misconceptions about trauma with the latest evidence from neuroscience and psychology―and shares tested practices and tools to help you work with your body’s coping mechanisms to accelerate healing.

The Tiny Joys Daily Journal is a simple yet powerful tool designed to cultivate a habit of noticing and imprinting small moments of happiness in everyday life. Neuroscience research shoes that developing a practice of joy can help rewire the brain. With daily prompts and sections for reflection, this journal encourages users to pause and appreciate the little joys that often go unnoticed. By recording these moments, users develop a positive mindset and greater gratitude for the simple pleasures that enrich their lives. Through consistent use, the journal becomes a heartwarming collection of tiny joys, reminding users to find beauty in the smallest of things!

Merleau-Ponty & a Phenomenology of PTSD

Despite the fact that we have been studying posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since at least the late 1800s, it remains prevalent and, in many cases intractable.

Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of PTSD: Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory begins with the assertion that we struggle to successfully treat PTSD because we simply do not understand it well enough.

American & NATO Veteran Reintegration

In American & NATO Veteran Reintegration, MaryCatherine McDonald & Gary Senecal examine mental health issues among former American service members. American veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder at significantly higher rates than veterans in other NATO ally countries involved in war. McDonald & Senecal argue that sociocultural factors, such as military training & civilian culture, have a dramatic impact on these rates.

Today my phone reminded me that Winston Churchill had a stuffed bunny with cymbals and that I have met this bunny in person and so I’ve basically met Winston Churchill. That’s my #tinylittlejoy for the day.🐰
A smattering of #tinylittlejoys from the last two weeks. That rose is the size of a cantaloupe and that little lizard thing is called a blue-tailed (duh) skink.
I am SUPER excited to be able to say that Unbroken is now available for pre-order in Spanish! As you can see, the cover design is beautiful and it's such a wild gift to me that someone went through and translated the entire thing. Muchas gracias, @ed
Here's a thing that I wish I was taught in the 1st grade: emotions are biological events. They have a beginning, middle, and an end. That means if we let them run their natural course, they end. If we go to war with them, well, then we're at war. The
lunch break, street books, @yung_pueblo, sunshine #tinylittlejoys
🔔 New @psych_today article! 🔔 The Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACE) metric is ✨supposed✨ to measure traumatic events in childhood, like abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction and then determine your risk for future medical, academic, and soci
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Throwback! This is a snippet from my dissertation prospectus (basically an outline you run by a committee before you do most of your research and writing to see if you could write a whole book-length thing about it) from 2011. It ended up being just
That being said, if you ever catch yourself saying, "I'm just being brutally honest!" you've gone to far. The truth is brutal enough, it doesn't need to be brutally delivered. Ever.