trauma recovery

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

Understanding Anxiety and the Body’s Response: Key Symptoms and Effective Coping Skills to 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.

Parts of Me… Introduction into Trauma, Emotional “Parts” & Structural Dissociation

Parts of Me… Introduction into Trauma, Emotional “Parts” & Structural Dissociation

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).

Trauma Theater: How to Stop Re-enacting Past Trauma in Our Relationships and Change Our Trauma Story

Trauma Theater: How to Stop Re-enacting Past Trauma in Our Relationships and Change Our Trauma Story

Relationships are fundamental to the human experience. They are intrinsic to how we define ourselves and relate to the world. They help form our values, morals, and beliefs. They protect us from danger and provide for us in times of need. They form the basis for our culture, shaping how we communicate and relate to others.

Healing from Trauma with EMDR Therapy

If you have ever been in therapy (great job taking a risk and getting some help), you most likely have heard about trauma, as it is quite the hot topic issue in the therapeutic community, and has been making its way into mainstream news.

Maybe you have even been diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by a licensed clinician, or maybe you diagnosed yourself. I mean, who hasn’t done that at least once after reading WebMD or several online articles about depression, anxiety, or narcissistic parents?