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Carolyn Allard

@carolynallardphd.bsky.social
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Author, Transform Your Guilt and Shame & Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction (TrIGR) Therapy; psychologist, researcher, professor, program director ~ CarolynAllardPhD.com

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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
There is a common misconception that reducing guilt diminishes accountability. In practice, the opposite is often true. When individuals are not overwhelmed by shame, they are better able to engage in clear, honest self-assessment and take responsibility in a grounded, forward-looking way.
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Guilt and shame that arise from traumatic, adverse or morally injurious experiences often turn into non-adaptive guilt and shame (NAGS) and wreak havoc on our lives and the lives of those around us.
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"It’s been a horrendous week, but . . .This is one of the best good news roundups I’ve sent out in a while. . . [W]hat we focus on tends to grow, so please take some time today to savor the many, many great things that happened this week amidst the noise and brutality.' -@jesscraven101.bsky.social
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Extra! Extra! 1/11
Yes. Good things DID happen this week!
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Having researched the tremendous personal and public costs of abuse for over two decades, I am no longer surprised but always saddened by the extent of individual and institutional betrayal that protects and enables perpetrators.
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Dr. Arie Kruglanski summarizes her work on mechanisms that not only help explain the emergence of extremist, fascist, and terrorist behaviors, but provide a way back to moderation and compassion: 1. Promote resource equity. 2. Promote inherent significance. Together we can! doi.org/10.1037/amp0...
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"From the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, released by the US House Oversight Committee on November 12, 2025, into an easily searchable repository." journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
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Pinpoint - From the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I am passionate about increasing psychological science access. That’s why I wrote a self-help version of the evidence-based #TrIGR therapy I helped develop. I discussed the impetus and evidence base for Transform Your Guilt and Shame and had a fun Q&A session at this year’s #APA convention:
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Transform Your Guilt and Shame | Carolyn B. Allard | APA 2025
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What a great day to join the institutional courage movement! It would mean so much to have your support! www.institutionalcourage.org/courage-in-a...
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Courage Is Making Headlines and You’re Part of the Story | Center for Institutional Courage | Center for Institutional Courage
From Oprah Daily to MSNBC, our message of institutional courage is reaching millions. Join us in expanding this movement.
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
“intelligence is not something one has. It’s something one participates in, the tangled feedback loops that make up this whole interwoven planet. We’re intelligent if our participation keeps the system healthy, and stupid if we eat through it like a cancer.” nautil.us/what-is-inte...
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What Is Intelligence?
What Is Intelligence? At a church in Italy, we sought to shed an old definition for one that could save us.
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Water the seeds you want to grow. Courage and compassion feed more courage and compassion. And hope. Together we can resist fascism. Signs from the peaceful and powerful #NoKings Protest in San Diego today💪🏼💕
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
There is so much good news compiled by @jesscraven101.bsky.social , including: "There are now more than 2500 No Kings protests scheduled for next week. TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED YOU GUYS!" I'll be out there on Oct 18. You too? www.nokings.org chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/extra-extr...
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Extra! Extra! 10/12
Wins! Wins! Wins!
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Yay - so many trainings this month! If you’re in San Diego and want to learn about Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction (#TrIGR) therapy and the self help book Transform Your Guilt and Shame join me at IVAT on Monday August 18 @ 4-530pm.
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Pls join us at one of the following @ #APA2025 – our research and clinical work only gets richer with active discussion and collaboration. #AlliantAtAPA #PsychologyInAction #AlliantUniversity #TraumaPsychology #TraumaRelatedGuilt
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Excited to be back home providing local and national trainings on #TrIGR (Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction) therapy and spreading awareness about the self-help version, Transform Your Guilt and Shame. Hope to see you at one of the events! www.carolynallardphd.com/events
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Trauma | Carolyn Allard
Carolyn Allard is a Clinical Psychology PhD Program Director, author (TrIGR), consultant, speaker and therapist, specializing in trauma and guilt.
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"[W]hat we focus on tends to grow, so let’s spend at least a bit of time focussing on progress, success, and goodness." Says @jesscraven101.bsky.social with her new list of progress, success, and goodness. chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/extra-extr...
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Extra! Extra! 7/13
Not EVERYTHING is bad! 🤟
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Read this list slowly to appreciate - and be inspired by - the courage all around us. Jessica Craven produces this every Sunday. open.substack.com/pub/chopwood...
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Extra! Extra! 7/6
Flowers on the steps of our troubles.
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Even the New York Times noticed there was a protest yesterday. My friends, we have reached an important turning point. Let's keep it up! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
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‘No Kings’ Protests Across the United States
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Proud to be part of the courageous 60k+ peaceful protestors in San Diego yesterday. Resistance is not futile. Compassion > hatred and fear.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Last night, Capitol Police arrested roughly 60 veterans and their family members outside the U.S. Capitol. The group had gathered to hold a peaceful sit-in on the Capitol steps, but police intentionally set up a barrier of bike racks to prevent them from demonstrating.
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
What a treat to give a #TrIGR (Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction) therapy training for Drs. Paolo Roma and Cristina Mazza’s wonderful doctoral students @ Sapienza Università di Roma (the largest University in Europe, no less - founded in the 11th century!) 🤯
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Tyranny wants hopelessness, ignorance, apathy, fear. Tyranny wants to crush your hope, knowledge, engagement, courage. Every week this "Extra Extra" list of successes gives evidence for the good stuff: @jesscraven101.bsky.social chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/extra-extr...
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Extra! Extra! 5/25
What a week!
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change." In the USA we have many more than 3.5% who want to stop the cruelty and destruction. (continued) www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I was fortunate and grateful to have worked at the VA in San Diego for a dozen years with inspiring colleagues who did amazing work each day, and whose friendships I cherish to this day. Like Dr. Christine Rufener, who went on to do more amazing work with Médecins Sans Frontières. 1/2
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Teaching budding #psychologists like these passionate students at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan about #evidencebasedtherapy for #PTSD and other #posttraumaticdistress like #traumarelatedguiltandshame is one my favorite things. It gives me great hope for our world.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Trump has ordered criminal investigations into more than 50 federal employees so far, including former intelligence officials, political rivals, and even members of his own administration. He has declared some “guilty of treason,”
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NPR @npr.org · 28/04/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
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DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets
Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
So great to read the positive review of Transform Your Guilt and Shame by Doody’s Review Service - excerpts: “shares poignant examples…fantastic resources and tools….easy to read, and easy to navigate. The author is an expert on this subject….” Score: 93 www.carolynallardphd.com/publications
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PUBLICATIONS | Carolyn Allard
Carolyn Allard's publications include books like Transform your Guilt and Shame, Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction (TrIGR) Therapy, Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and scientific papers focused on the ide...
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
April is sexual assault awareness and prevention month. 1 in 4 women & 1 in 33 men experience sexual assault at some point in their lifetime. If you haven’t yet, it is very likely you will. And if not, you at least know a bunch of people who have. Let’s work together to eradicate it!
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I have been reading the smart optimistic letters by @rbhubbell.bsky.social. Curious about him, I planned to just take a peak at a new recording. Within seconds I was hooked and listened to all 30 minutes. It's about the magic of courage in this moment. roberthubbell.substack.com/p/live-with-...
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Live with Robert B. Hubbell
A recording from Robert B. Hubbell's live video
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Peter M. Shane @petermshane.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The question I've been asked most as we endure the legal dumpster fire that is the Trump Administration is, "What can we do about it when it's not election season?" @timothynoah.bsky.social has an outstanding essay in the @newrepublic.com addressing that question. newrepublic.com/article/1931...
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Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
If you witnessed any incidents, please record video if it’s safe to do so, note the date and time, gather witness names if possible, and email us all relevant details. You can also reach out to local law enforcement directly—they’ve been very supportive and responsive.
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Lana Lawrence @msfocused.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Great thread and links on the impact of #Resistance movements and overcoming apathy, engaging 3.5% of population in nonviolent #protest. Please distribute far and wide! #courage is key!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
These are terrible times — the worst I’ve lived through, and I’ve lived through some bad ones. But in hundreds of thousands of ways, you are beacon lights. You are the beginnings of positive change. robertreich.substack.com/p/a-sunday-t...
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A Sunday thought
Friends,
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
From the post by Ruth Ben-Ghiat I learned about the 3.5% Rule (see Erica Chenoweth's article linked below). What history tells us: protests can truly work with sufficient mobilization. Apathy is the problem we must overcome. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is my new favorite Grok stat
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The U.S. government spent $710 billion in Trump’s first month, an increase from the same period a year prior. Cost-cutting efforts are ineffective, and job losses are occurring without clear justification.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Defense has 60% of federal contract dollars w/ <1% cuts, while the majority of DOGE cuts have affected global aid, health/science (HHS), social security, and education. "Those cuts fall disproportionately on smaller businesses owned by women and by people in minority groups..."
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Helpful resource for anyone wanting to put their money where their mouth is. Thank you @deiwatchdog.bsky.social ! www.dei.watch
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DEI WATCH
DEI Watch is broken into three categories: 1) DISMANTLED - companies that have ended or scaled back their DEI efforts; 2) COMMITTED - companies that have active DEI initiatives; and 3) FUNDED - organi...
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Sharing for anyone else who needed to read this today. Please send more positive action ideas my way. We Shall Not be Overwhelmed - How discerning attention can help us survive Trump 2.0: from Andrew Boyd gendread.substack.com/p/we-shall-n...
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We Shall Not be Overwhelmed
How discerning attention can help us survive Trump 2.0: a guest essay from Andrew Boyd
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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I am pleased to announce that the Center for Institutional Courage is accepting applications for research funding through the 2025 Institutional Courage Research Grants. Deadline for applications: 1 May 2025 Application instructions at: www.institutionalcourage.org/research-gra...
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Institutional Courage Research Grant Program | Center for Institutional Courage
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Kathy Becker-Blease @kbeckerblease.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Take heart. We saved the ACA and learned what works. "grassroots groups met regularly, informed themselves ... spelled out the dire consequences for patients & hospitals & health clinics ... in plain English to neighbors, friends, and co-workers." - Theda Skocpol newrepublic.com/article/1905...
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How to Take Heart From What Really Worked in the First Resistance
Marches and lawsuits are fine, but the real wins over MAGA last time were powered by grassroots activists pushing from thousands of districts across the country.
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
If your head is spinning and you’re not sure what to do, do yourself a favor and take 15 min to listen to Ezra Klein: “Don’t Believe Him.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Don't Believe Him
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 02/02/2025 · 14m
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Looking forward to share some ways to Transform Your Guilt and Shame at the American Psychological Association Book Nook next week! A recording will be available on demand for anyone who can’t attend live on Wednesday Feb 5@1pm EST. Registration link in comment.
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Nature is beautiful. Too bad it’s so cold!🥶
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Excited to share how to address #traumarelatedguilt and #traumarelatedshame in therapy or through a self-guided workbook at the American Psychological Association Book Nook Series. February 12, 2025, at 1:00pm ET Register here: apa.content.online/catalog/prod... Please share!
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Carolyn Allard @carolynallardphd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Excited to announce the publication of Transforming Your Guilt and Shame: Evidence-Based Strategies to Heal From Trauma and Adversity! www.carolynallardphd.com/publications Please share widely so it can get in the hands who need it.
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