Vocal Virginia

Join Emotions Matter for a special Live Seminar exploring how BPD impacts families, partners, and support systems. This conversation will bring together clinical expertise with lived experience and family perspectives to discuss communication, support, understanding, and recovery.

Whether you live with BPD, support someone who does, or want to learn more, this seminar will offer practical insights and compassionate guidance.

Wednesday, June 24
7 PM ET
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/EMBPD62426

There is strength in building a life that feels gentler to live inside. The peace we work hard to find is worth honoring.

Vocal Virginia will be closed tomorrow, Friday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth.

As we recognize Juneteenth, we honor Black freedom, resilience, leadership, and the ongoing work of building communities rooted in dignity, equity, and belonging.

We will reopen on Monday, June 21. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth.

"On its YouTube page, “Eat Your Feelings” is described as a “cooking and storytelling show about grief, resilience and the hard stuff nobody talks about at the table. Until now.”

While the production quality is high, Brown and Nathews ditch scripts and rehearsals for spontaneity, giving the show a live, see what happens next-type feel."

Army Veteran Uses Cooking Show to Tackle Mental Health and Loss in Military Families Searching for a way to connect with veterans, Cory Brown started "Eat Your Feelings" on YouTube, tackling hard topics through kitchen comfort.

"You already know that trauma affects the mind. But decades of research have made something else undeniable: trauma affects the body too deeply, measurably, and over time. Not in a vague, metaphorical way. In a concrete, biological way that shows up in your blood, your heart rate, your immune system, and your hormones.

The scientific concept that most precisely captures this is called allostatic load."

What Is Allostatic Load? The Science of Trauma on the Body Allostatic load is the physical toll chronic stress and trauma leave on your body over time. Learn what it is, how it's measured, its link to PTSD and CPTSD.

For more information & to register: https://tinyurl.com/MakesSense072326

This training offers 3 CEs for live attendance. Please note: these are not ethics-specific CEs.

What if mental distress isn’t something to fix—but something to understand?

This 3-hour virtual training offers a strengths-based, trauma-informed perspective on thoughts, emotions, and reactions often labeled as “symptoms.”

Together, we’ll explore how the nervous system and life experiences shape our responses—and how curiosity and compassion can open new pathways forward.

🌱 Join us to reframe distress as adaptive, meaningful, and worthy of understanding.

**Please consult registration page for low- or -no cost ticketing info/application.

Healing and recovery rarely move in a straight line. A setback does not erase the steps you’ve already taken. Finding your way back is part of the process.

Small acts aren't small at all.

They're the quiet work people do to keep going.

Mary Todd Lincoln and the Double Standard of Mental Illness Abraham Lincoln’s depression became a source of empathy and gravitas, writes Lois Romano. Mary Lincoln’s struggles were used against her.

"I wasn’t sneaking out and getting a visible tattoo, yet I was secretly embroidering marks of self-harm into my skin in the privacy of my room. Clearly, I was daring in another way –my rebellion was just my secret."

My Eating Disorder Was Rebellious, My Recovery Is a Rebellion "The beauty of recovery is now I am a rebel with a cause ."