Trauma

With the virtual OHBM meeting just around the corner, we simply can’t ignore the reason why we’re holding a virtual conference in the first place, along with the shift in productivity, coping adaptations, and mental health states that we have all experienced in recent times. I had the pleasure of sitting down virtually with Emma Kaywin, a conflict mediator and sexual health educator in New York City, who shared her expertise on trauma counseling and its links with the broad spectrum of challenges we have had to face in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and amplified by recent civil unrest.

A talk as part of YES Talks at House of Yes.

Recently, I was groped on the subway staircase. A man stumbled up to me and put his entire palm on my skirt, right above my pelvic bone. I turned after him and yelled, “Are you f**king kidding me?” (eloquent, I know) and off we both went, me struggling not to pass out from my stress reaction and him, I don’t know, likely not thinking about it ever again.