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Let's talk about something we don't talk about enough: the deep, often invisible link between trauma, incarceration, and the lifelong effects it has on our bodies and our minds.
The truth is simple, but often ignored:
Trauma is at the root of gun violence. Trauma is at the root of youth violence, and abuse.
Trauma is the silent architect of the school-to-prison pipeline.
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It will answer the questions community leaders keep asking:
Why do youth fall into violence?
What drives repeated abuse and neglect?
How does incarceration deepen disconnection?
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And most importantly...
What can we do to interrupt the cycle?
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Whether it comes through violence, poverty, systemic injustice, or early childhood loss, trauma is not rare - it's reality. Most people will experience it in some form. But the truth we now understand, both through science and lived experience, is that trauma doesn't just live in our thoughts. It embeds itself in our nervous systems. It rewires how we respond to the world. It lingers in our bodies, in our blood pressure, in our sleep patterns, in our stress responses. Its not just psychological - it's physical. It's cellular.
Trauma Lives in the Nervous System, Not Just the Mind
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Unresolved trauma - especially the kind that begins early in life or continues for years - drives the same chronic diseases that are killing our people every day: heart disease, diabetes, respiratory failure, and cancer. And when you look at the communities most impacted by incarceration, you'll find those same communities carrying the heaviest loads of trauma. Not as a one-time event, but as a constant atmosphere.
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