Dr. Kate Tumelty-Felice

I'm Dr. Kate Tumelty-Felice. I came here today to Trenton Youth Wrestling to talk to them about trauma, stress, adversity, and ultimately, resilience. We're in our second practice at our academy this spring.

"We just had Dr. Kate Tumelty-Felice from Rowan University speak to us about trauma and how to deal with it, how to become resilient when we face trauma. I think it's really important to have outside speakers come and talk with our kids, give them their experiences, give them different perspectives to understand that trauma is just like any other type of physical injury that we have, and the more we can talk about it and the more we can rehab it and work on it, the more resilient we'll become. I think everybody's stress level settled down a little bit, and we talked about stress relief techniques, all of which were highly valuable."

We just had another great session. It's such a privilege to be here and see these kids working hard and to be around this kind of an ethos and this kind of an esprit de corps. Our team and these kids and everybody, we feed on each other, and it's just a privilege to be here.