In her new book, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health, Jennifer Fraser, best-selling author and award-winning educator, reveals how bullying and abuse have seeped into every corner of society — from children’s playgrounds to the upper echelons of leadership. She offers remedies coming from advancements in brain science that open the door to recovery and healing. The Bullied Brain makes clear that all forms of bullying and abuse harm minds, brains, and bodies. It takes the discussion out from behind closed doors and provides readers a blueprint for not only navigating and surviving in a world where bullying has become normative behaviour, but also for dismantling the “bullying paradigm” and replacing it with one grounded in knowledge of our brains, empathy and compassion for ourselves and others.

The Self Lost to Abuse

When you are abused, you often lose yourself, your authentic self. You become disconnected from your essential self. You are the self lost to abuse. My mission is to recover her and honour her. This is why you see her on my website. That confident, glowing, young, vibrant woman. I am dedicated to returning her…

The Neuroscience of Bullying and Abuse

In 2019, I was asked by students at Langara College in Vancouver BC to do a TEDx Talk on the work I was doing and this is what led to my presentation on the “Neuroscience of Bullying.” I was reading neuroscientific, neurobiological, medical, and psychological research about bullying and abuse in order to write my next book.…

Parents Bullying Their Own Kids

When I did my TEDx Talk in 2019 (sorry the sound is terrible, out of my control), I was not expecting viewers to comment on parents bullying their own kids. Due to lived experience, I was speaking about the serious harm to developing brains when teachers abuse students, not parents. I hadn’t really thought about how some parents…

What’s going on when adults bully children?

Parents, teachers, and coaches are not usually the bullies we feel comfortable talking about. We prefer to talk about child-to-child bullies. What’s going on when adults bully children? In most cases, adults come by bullying behaviours honestly because they were bullied in childhood. They think it’s normal conduct. They think it gets results. They think…