What is Trauma? The Author of “The Body Keeps the Score” Explains

In Part 1, Bessel van der Kolktalks about trauma. In Part 2, he talks about 6 ways to heal trauma without medication.

8 min

First We Eat (trailer)

What happens when an ordinary family, living just south of the Arctic Circle, bans all grocery store food from their house for one year? Add three skeptical teenagers, one reluctant husband, no salt, no caffeine, no sugar and -40 temperatures.

2 min

All the Time in the World: Disconnecting to Reconnect (2014) ($5)

Three kids, ages 10, 8 and 5, spend nine months self-isolating with their family in the Yukon wilderness over a long northern winter. Small cabin, no friends, no internet, no phone, no electricity. For nine months they never once said Im bored. Find out why. All The Time In...

86 min

Hawaii Emergency: Navy Poisons Drinking Water

The US Navy has poisoned the largest water supply in O'ahu, Hawaii. Nobody knows how long residents have been drinking toxic water, how big the chemical leak is, or how many it will impact. But instead of urgent action to save lives, the Navy is engaging in a cover up.

10 min

Social Media Addiction - How It Changes Your Brain | Luke Burgis

By definition, mimetic desire means that we're adopting another person's desire as our own, usually without even realizing that we're doing it. Social media has given us millions of mimetic models that we now have to contend with. Some people have gone from having 10 mimetic...

5 min

Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia (and Moved to the Netherlands Instead)

I was always told, growing up, that the suburbs (of Canada) are a good place to raise children. But I've come to appreciate the importance of independence for the a child's development, something that's nearly impossible in today's car-dependent suburbs. It was pretty clear...

12 min

Rogan, CNN, Ivermectin & Heterodox Thinking | Zubin Damania

The pandemic has stress tested all our institutions, especially those we have relied on for truth seeking and sensemaking. It's deepened the chasm between mainstream and alternative, consensus and contrarian.

88 min

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)

Fly By Lightis an intimate exploration of young people seeking to overcome the violence in their lives and create a new path for their future by connecting to a world outside their neighborhoods. In Washington, DC, where high school dropout rates average 40%, a group of...

83 min

THE GREAT NHS HEIST

Universal healthcare has been a fundamental human right in many developed countries for decades. Britain led the way in establishing the National Health Service in 1948 from the wreckage of World War II, but unbeknown to the public UK governments have secretly been removing...

96 min

Profiteering From Vaccine Inequity: a Crime Against Humanity?

Companies and rich nations are creating a deadly Covid-19 vaccine "protection racket."

Fatima Hassan, Gavin Yamey, Kamran Abbasi

Lack of Trusted Authority Is Why Covid-19 Is Kicking Our Butts

The resulting credibility vacuum has enabled unscrupulous politicians, agents of chaos, and other charlatans to position themselves as experts.

Steven Singer

Despite Our Despair, There's a Reality Worth Fighting For

Those who are enduring injustice, exploitation, and oppressionwhether people, animals, or ecosystemsneed us to believe that wrongs can be righted and to take action accordingly.

Zoe Weil

6 Ways to Heal Trauma without Medication, from the Author of “The Body Keeps the Score, ” Bessel van der Kolk

Conventional psychiatric practices tell us that if we feel bad, take this drug and it will go away. But after years of research with some of the top psychiatric practitioners in the world, weve found that drugs simply dont work that well for many, and our conventional ways of...

9 min

Beyond Trauma Informed, with Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha

It could be argued that humans have never been so destructive, so violent against a living earth. How did we arrive here? We forgot the wellness-informed pathway to human wellbeing, a holistic wellbeing that leads to peacefulness. We describe the wellness-informed pathway and...

85 min

Small Scale Agroecological Approaches for the COVID 19 Response and Beyond

From the closure of markets to the interruption of agricultural supply chains, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to disrupt food systems around the world. Many families, especially those in already fragile contexts, may soon struggle to access healthy, nutritious diets. Meeting...

67 min

Not Going Quietly (trailer)

Ady Barkans life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful Senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement.

3 min

Death by Pollution

Do we all breathe the same air? Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was a nine-year-old girl who lived in south-east London and died in 2013. The cause of death was listed as air pollution, now her mother is fighting to make clean air a human right. This Novara Doc was made by black &...

10 min

COVID-19, Capitalism and the Pandemic of Endless War

If you think police budgets are out of hand, wait until you hear about the military. A Gravel Institute documentary on the links between the pandemic, power, and capitalism.

8 min

A Viral Tale

An animated story in rhyme, about these very strange times.

8 min

How We End Consumerism: The Degrowth Movement Shows a Way

How we end consumerism, explained.

12 min

Biological Warfare and the Lab Leak Hypothesis

Over the past 15 months, the official narrative surrounding the origins of Covid-19 has completely flipped...why is that? This is a complex, controversial, and convoluted topic, but heres my attempt at a concrete analysis of the situation. Id love to hear your thoughts in the...

17 min

Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains

Grading is a scam and motivation is a myth. Those sound like bold words, but today we're going to dive down the rabbit hole and prove, once and for all, that our current state of schooling (and of...well..._everything_) is rotten to its core. ...that's all a little dramatic...

53 min

Spirited Away - Why Work Is Toxic

Hidden in the fantastic otherwordly narrative of Hayao Miyazakis Spirited Away is an allegory about societys toxic obsession with work. The Studio Ghibli classic was released in 2001 and commented on Japans losing its soul to capitalism in the context of the countrys lost...

24 min

The Truth About Food Insecurity

We live in a world with a rapidly growing population. Some people would have you believe that food insecurity is caused by overpopulation, or that we've reached the earth's carrying capacity. Is that really the case? In this episode, Second Thought takesa brief look at the...

13 min

Why You Can't Compare Covid-19 Vaccines

What a vaccine's "efficacy rate" actually means.

8 min

20 Signs You're Emotionally Mature

However old we might be, none of us is ever quite emotionally mature - but having a list to hand of what maturity consists of might be a way of keeping score and nudging ourselves in the right direction. Here is a comprehensive list of what maturity might comprise.

8 min

8 Toxic Things Parents Say To their Children

Do you wonder about the toxic people in your life? What if your mother is toxic? What if your father is toxic? Or what if both of your parents are toxic. Regardlessof whether your family members are really toxic or not, Psych2Go made this video to highlight the 8 unhealthy...

7 min

Creating the Conditions for Belonging and Breathing in a Toxic Environment | john a. powell

Bridging or breaking? That is the sharp choice we face today as a society and as individual citizens. john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, has long been one of our nations leading and most original thought leaders. He has delved...

18 min

So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed

The Right wants you to believe that a coddled, overly sensitive left is propping up cancel culture. But punitive, hyper-surveillant ways of interacting online are built into the structure of privately owned social media companies, and theyre practiced across the political...

Ben Burgis

Bullied (2019) ($4)

From people who live with the scars of having been bullied to families who now grieve the loss of their child to suicide in the wake of brutal acts of bullying, this film examines the reasons why people bully and the fallout that occurs from that bullying.

67 min

Grief, Sacred Rage and Revolutionary Love | Bioneers

For too long women in general and women of color even more pointedly have been told to suppress their grief and rage in the name of love and forgiveness. No more. How do we reclaim our emotions in the labor of loving others? What might authentic reckoning, apology, and...

90 min

Breaking Free of Old Habits, Addiction, and Past Traumas with Dr. Gabor Maté

Its part of the human condition to run away from pain. Most of us have habits that we acquired as a way to cope with painful childhood experiences or traumas, which unfortunately dont serve us as adults. These habits can manifest as addiction in a wide variety of forms, from...

65 min

Capitalist Realism, Mental Illness and Societies of Control

Capitalist realism is the ambient all pervasive atmosphere where it's just sort of implied that capitalism is all there is. It conditions how we view the world, how we work, our social relations, even our thoughts and behaviors. When it comes to mental health, capitalist...

25 min

Nicholas Christakis - Our Common Humanity

These wonderful qualities that bind us together, that reflect our common humanity are unbelievably unbelievable and wonderful to see. And so this is one of the reasons I'm optimistic. Nicholas Christakis

3 min

Jane Goodall - Pandemic

It is our disregard for nature and our disrespect of the animals we should share the planet with that has caused this pandemic. Jane Goodall

4 min

America's Prescription Drug Cartel

The United States has the most expensive prescription drugs in the world. We often pay ten times the price for the same drug, even though there's no difference at all. Why is American healthcare so expensive? In this episode, we take a brief look at America's prescription...

14 min

Happy Teachers Will Change the World: Bringing Mindfulness into Education (2015)

Being a teacher in the world of today is a demanding job with lots of challenges, often resulting in stress and burn-out. Is there a solution?

39 min

The Way Out: Facing the Climate Crisis (2018) ($7)

What can we do, when time is running out? Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has a revolutionary proposal for facing the Climate Crisis. The way out is in, he states. The way out of climate change is inside each of us. His invitation is to stop: to stop running and to take a good...

60 min

If The Government Can Get Away With 100,000 Covid Deaths, It Can Get Away With Anything | Peter Jukes

What's beenthe cost of the pandemic lies? Well, at least 100,000 dead. And yet this government remains at 40 percent in the polls

8 min

How Childhood Trauma Leads to Addiction | Gabor Maté

Gabor Mat CM (born January 6, 1944) is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development and trauma, and in their potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including on autoimmune...

10 min

The Minimalists: Less Is Now (trailer)

They've built a movement out of minimalism. Longtime friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus share how our lives can be better with less. Directed by Matt D'Avella.

2 min

Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2015)

How might your life be better with less? MINIMALISMtakesthe audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of lifefamilies, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former Wall Street brokerall of whom are striving to live a meaningful...

78 min

George Monbiot Exposes Coronavirus Corruption at the Heart of Government

Covid Corruption, Privileged Parasites & the Gilded Circle: Watch the full 18min interview with Monbiot on Corruption.

9 min

Just the Way You Are

"Growing up I had vague memories of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, but watching his program now as an adult and as a filmmaker I was fascinated by the degree of sophistication and discipline Rogers brought to his show.

15 min

The Social Dilemma (trailer)

We tweet, we like, and we share but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing whats...

3 min

Take Back Your Attention From The Social Media Algorithms

"Take Back Your Attention" is a short compilation with clips from several Rebel Wisdom films, and featuring visuals from the recent Netflix film with Tristan Harris, "The Social Dilemma".

5 min

Honor Yard: Finding Hope & Healing in a Maximum-Security Prison

Imagine finding hope, camaraderie and healing in a maximum-security prison.Honor Yard explores the symptoms of trauma from the perspective of the men who live in an Honor Yard at a California Prison in Lancaster, CA.

9 min

Generation Like (2014)

Social media gives teens new platforms for self-expression, validation and even potential fame but at what cost? Today, thanks to the internet, teens are able to connect and engage with their culture, celebrities, movies, brands in ways never before possible. But is that...

54 min

How the Modern World Makes Us Mentally Ill - Dr. Jonathan Haidt

Dr. Jonathan Haidt explains how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for a failure.

13 min

Trump, QAnon and The Return of Magic (2020)

This mini-doc isa deep dive into the topsy turvy world of Trump, QAnon, 5G, Covid, vaccines, Satanism and more. You'll also find out about the epic clash between Magical Thinkers and Evidence Seekers.

44 min

Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)

For the first time in history, mental illness and suicide have become one of the greatest threats to school-aged children. Many parents still view dangers as primarily physical and external, but theyre missing the real danger: kids spending more time online and less time...

89 min

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

Ayishat Akanbi is a stylist and cultural commentator. Her monologue 'The Problem with Wokeness' went viral a couple of years ago. She argues that modern social justice movements, or 'wokeness', often creates division, and harms those it is intended to help.

63 min

Kiss the Ground (trailer)

Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the worlds soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earths climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film...

3 min

We Can Do Better Than This

My wife, Stella, recently shut down her account on the social-media-platform-that-must-not-be-named. It feels like Im walking away from a fight, she said. Almost everything I read there is a signal as to what side the poster is on. Or an attempt to promote the idea that, Im...

Charles Eisenstein

The Age of Disconnection (2018)

The discipline that involves doing sports combinedwith the mental clarity that comes from being immersed in nature is a combination that has enabled thousands of people to abandon addiction, have a spiritual renewal, re-evaluate their lives and find their purpose in life.

94 min

Honest Government Ad | TRUMP 2020

The White House has made an ad about how things are going, and its surprisingly honest and informative.

4 min

Lost In Carranza

In the night of October 12th 2015, Pablo Carranza falls back into hard drugs despite his sobriety and battle against years of addiction. Alone in his apartment, filled with regret and guilt, he decides to confess by leaving a final voice message for his first love.

22 min

Until Further Notice

I made this video after a friend left me a voicemail. We had both recently been laid off our jobs and all non-essential businesses were being shut down. We didn'trealize it at the time but we were the lucky ones - essential workers were out there risking their health to keep...

2 min

The Wisdom of Trauma (2021) ($8)

One in five Americans are diagnosed with mental illness in any given year. Suicide is the second most common cause of death in the US for youth aged 15-24. Depression kills over a million people a year globally and 50,000 in the USA. Drug overdoses kills 70,000 in the USA...

88 min

COVID's Hidden Toll (2020)

How the COVID crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers who have helped keep America fed during the pandemic. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you.

54 min

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