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10/30/2026

📚 Book Review Spotlight: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry with Maia Szalavitz

What if a child's behavior is not a sign of defiance, but a reflection of what they have experienced?

In The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, child psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry explores how early experiences of abuse, neglect, and adversity shape the developing brain and nervous system, influencing how children respond to stress, relationships, and the world around them.

Through powerful clinical stories and accessible neuroscience, Perry challenges us to look beyond behavior and recognize the survival adaptations that often develop in response to trauma.

At The Soaring Center, this perspective is central to trauma-informed care. Understanding a child's experiences, rather than judging their reactions, creates opportunities for compassion, safety, and meaningful support.

The book also highlights the remarkable role of consistent, caring relationships in recovery, reminding us that healing is possible when children are given the safety, stability, and connection they need to thrive.

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog is a powerful reminder that understanding trauma begins with curiosity, not judgment.

💡 Read Micha Star Liberty's full review at thesoaringcenter.com/blog

10/22/2026

💜 Domestic Violence Awareness Month 💜

Supporting survivors begins with understanding that everyone deserves to feel safe, respected, and heard.

For someone experiencing domestic violence, even small acts of compassion can make a meaningful difference. Sometimes, the most supportive thing we can do is listen without judgment and respect their choices.

💡 “What is one way we can help create a safer, more supportive environment for survivors?”

Maybe it's listening without questioning someone's experience.
Maybe it's respecting their boundaries and decisions.
Maybe it's learning to recognize the signs of abuse.
Maybe it's helping someone find support without pressuring them to take action.

At The Soaring Center, we believe trauma-informed support is rooted in safety, trust, compassion, and survivor autonomy. Creating supportive communities means recognizing that healing looks different for everyone and that survivors deserve to make decisions at their own pace.

This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, consider how everyday actions can help build a culture where survivors feel respected, supported, and empowered.

💬 Share your thoughts in the comments if you feel comfortable doing so. Your perspective may inspire others to become more compassionate and informed supporters.

💡 Learn more about trauma-informed healing at thesoaringcenter.com.

10/15/2026

💜 Domestic Violence Awareness Month 💜

Domestic violence does not always leave visible injuries. Abuse can take many forms, including emotional manipulation, financial control, intimidation, isolation, and behaviors that undermine a person's safety and independence.

This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, The Soaring Center is reminding our community that understanding abuse is an important part of creating safer, more supportive environments for survivors.

✨ Abuse is not always visible
✨ Leaving is not always simple
✨ Support begins with listening
✨ Every survivor deserves safety

For many survivors, leaving an abusive relationship involves complicated emotional, financial, and safety considerations. Supporting someone does not mean telling them what to do or expecting them to heal on someone else's timeline.

It means listening without judgment, respecting their autonomy, and helping create conditions where they can make informed choices about their own safety and well-being.

💡 Survivors deserve more than awareness. They deserve compassion, dignity, and support that empowers rather than pressures.

10/08/2026

🌿 When Simple Tasks Feel Overwhelming 🌿
Understanding Executive Dysfunction and Trauma

Have you ever stared at an unanswered email, a pile of laundry, or a simple phone call and felt completely unable to begin?

For trauma survivors, what looks like procrastination or a lack of motivation may actually be nervous system overload.

In our newest blog, Micha Star Liberty explores how trauma can affect executive functioning—the brain’s ability to plan, organize, prioritize, remember, and move between tasks.

This post explores:
✨ Why trauma can make everyday tasks feel overwhelming
✨ How stress affects planning, focus, and motivation
✨ Ways to work with your brain instead of against it
✨ Why compassion can be more effective than self-criticism

Healing does not always look like accomplishing everything on your list. Sometimes, it looks like answering one email, making one appointment, or simply taking the next manageable step.

💡 Your productivity does not determine your worth. Every small step counts.

🔗 Read the full blog at thesoaringcenter.com/blog

10/01/2026

💜 Domestic Violence Awareness Month 💜

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a time to center survivors, increase understanding, and recognize that abuse can take many forms.

Domestic violence is not limited to physical harm. It can include emotional abuse, coercive control, financial abuse, intimidation, isolation, stalking, and other behaviors used to maintain power and control.

At The Soaring Center, we believe survivors deserve responses rooted in safety, dignity, choice, and compassion.

This month, we are reminding our community:

✨ Abuse is never the survivor’s responsibility
✨ Domestic violence can take many forms
✨ Leaving is not always simple or immediately safe
✨ Survivors deserve to make choices at their own pace
✨ Support should empower, never pressure

Trauma-informed support begins by listening, believing, and respecting a survivor’s autonomy.

💡 Every survivor deserves safety, support, and the freedom to determine what healing looks like for them.

09/25/2026

🪶 California Native American Day 🪶
September 25

Today, we honor the cultures, histories, resilience, and enduring contributions of California’s Native peoples.

California is home to more than 100 federally recognized Tribal Nations, each with distinct histories, languages, traditions, and cultures. Native communities have cared for these lands since time immemorial and continue to enrich California through cultural preservation, environmental stewardship, leadership, education, and community.

At The Soaring Center, we believe healing also requires acknowledging history. Trauma can extend across generations, but so can strength, knowledge, culture, and connection.

Today, we honor:

✨ The resilience of Native communities
✨ The traditions and knowledge carried across generations
✨ The importance of culture and community in healing
✨ The voices and lived experiences of California Native peoples

💡 May we continue creating spaces where history is acknowledged, culture is respected, and every community is treated with dignity and care.

09/24/2026

📚 Book Review Spotlight: Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk

What happens when caring for others begins to take a toll on the person providing the care?

In Trauma Stewardship, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky explores the cumulative impact of bearing witness to trauma and suffering, particularly for therapists, advocates, healthcare workers, educators, attorneys, first responders, caregivers, and others whose work centers on helping people through difficult experiences.

Rather than framing exhaustion, emotional numbness, or overwhelm as personal failures, the book invites us to recognize them as signs that helpers need care, too.

At The Soaring Center, this perspective is an important part of trauma-informed practice. Sustainable care is not built on endless self-sacrifice. It requires boundaries, connection, restoration, and systems that support the well-being of those doing the supporting.

Trauma Stewardship reminds us that caring for ourselves does not diminish our commitment to others. It helps make that commitment sustainable.

💡 Read Micha Star Liberty’s full review at thesoaringcenter.com/blog

09/18/2026

🌎 Hispanic Heritage Month 🌎
September 15 – October 15

Hispanic Heritage Month is a time to celebrate the histories, cultures, contributions, and diverse experiences of Hispanic and Latino communities.

At The Soaring Center, we also recognize the importance of culture and identity in healing. Our families, languages, traditions, and communities can shape how we understand our experiences, seek support, and find connection.

Trauma-informed care means making space for those differences rather than assuming healing looks the same for everyone.

This month, we honor:

✨ The strength found in culture and community
✨ The importance of culturally responsive care
✨ The stories and experiences carried across generations
✨ The power of belonging, connection, and being understood

Healing can be deeply personal, but it is also shaped by the communities and cultures that surround us.

💡 Everyone deserves support that honors the whole person—their story, identity, culture, and lived experience.

09/17/2026

💜 Su***de Prevention Awareness Month 💜

Sometimes support begins with something as simple as knowing who helps us feel safe enough to be ourselves.

During difficult moments, connection can remind us that we do not have to carry everything alone.

💡 “Who is someone you feel safe reaching out to when you need support?”

Maybe it’s a close friend.
Maybe it’s a family member.
Maybe it’s a therapist, mentor, or support person.
Maybe it’s someone who simply listens without judgment.

At The Soaring Center, we believe meaningful connection can be an important part of emotional well-being. Knowing who we can turn to, and reminding others that we are available to them, helps create communities rooted in care, trust, and belonging.

This Su***de Prevention Awareness Month, consider the people who make it easier to be honest about how you are really doing.

💬 Share in the comments if it feels supportive to do so. Your response may remind someone else of the connections they can lean on.

💡 Learn more about trauma-informed healing at thesoaringcenter.com.

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09/10/2026

💜 Su***de Prevention Awareness Month 💜

Struggle is not always visible. Someone can continue showing up, smiling, working, and caring for others while carrying pain that the people around them may never see.

This Su***de Prevention Awareness Month, The Soaring Center is reminding our community that meaningful support can begin with simple acts of human connection.

✨ Struggle is not always visible
✨ Checking in can matter
✨ Listening is a form of support
✨ Connection can create hope

We do not always need to have the perfect words or know how to fix what someone is experiencing. Sometimes, being present, listening without judgment, and creating space for honesty can make a meaningful difference.

💡 Compassion and connection can remind someone that they do not have to carry difficult moments alone.

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