Trauma Recovery

Tools for Healing: How to Break Free from Transgenerational Trauma (+4 Mindfulness Exercises to Help You Break Free from Generational Trauma)

Tools for Healing: How to Break Free from Transgenerational Trauma (+4 Mindfulness Exercises to Help You Break Free from Generational Trauma)

Healing generational trauma requires more than awareness—it demands intentional action. Many of us inherit patterns of abuse, neglect, addiction, mental illness, social inequality, and other hardships from our family systems. These experiences, compounded by harmful environmental conditions, lack of resources, and systemic oppression, can shape our beliefs, behaviors, and emotional responses. Understanding these patterns through the lens of attachment theory and developmental theory is a vital first step toward breaking the cycle.

Building Confidence: How Small Actions Empower Your Recovery

Building Confidence: How Small Actions Empower Your Recovery

Recovery from addiction or trauma is not about one big breakthrough—it’s about steady, consistent steps that help you rebuild trust in yourself. Confidence doesn’t show up overnight. It grows through small daily actions…

Rebuilding After Trauma and Addiction: A Journey of Healing and Hope

Rebuilding after trauma and addiction isn't about forgetting where you've been. It's about choosing what comes next. The pain, the losses, the chaos—they’re part of your story. But they aren’t the final chapter. You get to write the rest.

Understanding Anxiety and the Body’s Response: Key Symptoms and Effective Coping Skills for Managing Anxiety

Understanding Anxiety and the Body’s Response: Key Symptoms and Effective Coping Skills for Managing Anxiety

Understanding the relationship between the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and anxiety is essential to treatment. The SNS is a part of the autonomic nervous system that activates our body’s "fight or flight" response. For those with trauma histories, this response can become overactivated, even in non-threatening situations, leading to heightened and persistent anxiety.

Reducing Traumatic Stress: An EMDR Therapist's Perspective

Reducing Traumatic Stress: An EMDR Therapist's Perspective

Trauma leaves a profound impact, often shaping the way people perceive the world, relate to others, and even experience themselves. The good news is that trauma doesn't have to define you, and through therapies like EMDR, there is a way to find relief, process the pain, and move forward into a healthier and more empowered life.