Trauma Recovery, Mental Health Recovery
Weston Zink
Understanding Anxiety and the Body’s Response: ...

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.

Understanding Anxiety and the Body’s Response: Key Symptoms and Effective Coping Skills to Managing Anxiety
Trauma Recovery
Weston Zink
Reducing Traumatic Stress: An EMDR Therapist's ...

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.

Reducing Traumatic Stress: An EMDR Therapist's Perspective
Weston Zink
Parts of Me… Introduction into Trauma, ...

Trauma is the physiological and psychological response to deeply disturbing or distressing events that overwhelm our ability to cope, leading to profound feelings of helplessness and hopelessness protecting ourselves (or others we care about like parents or siblings) when faced with real (or perceived) threats.

When left untreated, patterns of disturbance which are experienced for more than 1 month after a traumatic event has occurred, and cause significant disruption in social and occupational areas of one’s life often become what is known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Parts of Me… Introduction into Trauma, Emotional “Parts” & Structural Dissociation
Weston Zink
5 Important Lessons I Learned During the 2020 ...

To say the least, 2020 was a strange and chaotic year for us all. With the COVID-19 pandemic at the forefront of great challenges and change in our social, political, and economic systems, many of us were forced into an unfamiliar and unpredictable world wrought with fear of what’s to come, grief at what was lost, and uncertainty about how to navigate it all.

5 Important Lessons I Learned During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
Weston Zink
Rites of Passage and Their Vital Importance to ...

There are three existential questions all of us have asked or will ask at some point in our lives:

1) Who am I?

2) Where did I come from?

3) What is the meaning and purpose of my life?

These questions are extraordinarily complex and intricate, as they are unique to the individual person and are exceedingly difficult to answer by one’s self. The reason these questions are more challenging to answer is because we cannot answer them by mere thought alone.

Rites of Passage and Their Vital Importance to the Development of Boys & Men

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3 Tips for Taking Care of Our Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

3 Tips for Taking Care of Our Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Many of us feel more than stressed out due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the associated job losses, social unrest, mask mandates, and lockdowns that have occurred over the last several months. We are filled with doubt things will return back to normal. We feel uncertain about our future and our children’s future. We feel angry and frustrated that our goals, dreams, and world have been turned upside down by a force we have no control over. We are scared about how much worse things can get and what “getting through this” will look like for us.