Trauma-informed care can combat unconscious bias in medical systems by increasing empathy with patients, improving rates of providers believing patients'’ experiences of pain, and driving better patient outcomes. Here are sample questions and statements of affirmation that will help you connect with your patients.

When doing anti-racism work, it is common to experience “flight or fight” stress reactions. Here are some concrete tools for regaining control over your limbic system when you’ve experienced this type of reaction.

People of all racial identities have experienced generational trauma around race, and Resmaa Menakem has much to teach us about ancestral healing.

If you plan to take any public stance on social justice issues, trolls WILL find you. Their racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist diatribes will leak out all over your page. And when you leave them up, you are making the internet a more toxic place for people like me (and people like you!) who have to read it. I implore you— use a service to help clear your channels of these toxic messages.

This is the second blog in my series on parenting with a social justice focus. In each post, I start with a specific parenting situation that I found a way to bungle through. Then I cover what my big-picture parenting goals were, in that scenario. Finally, I'll give a few tips and tricks for how to navigate similar situations in your own parenting life. Hopefully, others will learn from my mistakes.