Author: A.C. Brooke
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A Message for Those Who Feel Helpless in Our Current Climate
Put Your Life Vest On First I wanted to share something that intersects with both Suicide Prevention Month and our current landscape as a country after flying back home on 9/11 in the wake of a very publicized assassination. While abroad, I was lucky enough to connect with people from all over the world. Something…
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Dr. Chang Appreciation Post
A Man Who Helped MaKe Paper Birds Possible Time for a Dr. Chang appreciation post! It was just over half a decade now that I first met Dr. Chang over Zoom (unintentionally this aligns well with detailing fall of 2020, five years on). Courses were completely online, but despite this, his personality transcended the small…
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It’s Been Awhile: Vlog 26
Yapping Into The Void Back with a vlog…it’s been awhile! Wanted to share some candid thoughts after watching the cut of Paper Birds for my editor, and touch on how I feel approaching the 5th anniversary of my first flashback on August 29th, 2020. If anyone would like to see the current cut of the…
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A Metaphor for Phase Three of Trauma Healing
Introducing the ‘Life Binder’ Chat, I have more reflections, but this will be two posts so sorry in advance: So as I established, I realize now I’m solidly in phase three of Judith Herman’s “Trauma & Recovery” model. The clearing. The integration. The reconnection. Well, I’ve been trying to step into that in a few…
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Behind the Scenes: Editing!
Some Updates Behind the scenes video originally posted to YouTube on May 31st. It’s garnered a grand total of seven views (I know, I know…hold your applause). But I actually thought this was quite interesting. The ideas I discussed in here did end up making it into the film so that was neat to realize…
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That Fall, Five Years On: The Summer Before Everything Changed
Summer 2020: Creative, Colorful, Curious So I won’t be able to line this up perfectly as I’ll be abroad the first two weeks of September, but seeing as we’re nearing the five year anniversary of when this whole story began, I thought maybe I’d document that fall in real time, half a decade on. This…
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The Reason Paper Birds Exists
“Look for the Helpers” I’ve wanted to post something like this for a while, and likely will again in the future when the film is officially released. These are a few comments left by strangers regarding the film (these were all posted publicly but thought I’d blur out the usernames anyway). I’ve also received a number of…
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Standing In the Clearing: Life After Healing Trauma
A couple months, ago my nieces and I built a little fort in the brush behind my house, or started to, rather. I spent a lot of time in the woods growing up—and still do, though the trail in my neighborhood was ruined by a storm about a year ago. This was one of my…
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My Response to “Was Working on Paper Birds Healing?”
A Million Layers Between Two Roles Early on in the weekend, I was in full Paper Birds mode—emailing my editor, corresponding with Jim, combing through transcripts–and, consequently, it brought up a unique inner tension I’ve encountered a few times while working on this piece. Since it’s sort of an abstract look ‘behind the scenes’, I…
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New Resource Hub of Wellness Apps, Podcasts & More for People Healing Trauma
Digital Tools to Guide the Way While the documentary, Paper Birds, aims to start a discussion, the hope is for the film’s website to guide viewers’ next steps. The last addition to our resources tab was a master list of book recommendations directly sourced from trauma survivors across a number of online communities. Now, we’re…
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