Tag: emotional trauma
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How to Heal From Complex Trauma: 3 Phases of Recovery
Complex trauma can be a heavy and often misunderstood experience. In this blog post, we’ll help you understand the symptoms and impact of complex trauma and explore the steps to recovery.
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How the Media Portrays Black Trauma
In 2020, the death of George Floyd ignited protests across America over race relations and the treatment of Black people, especially by law enforcement. The Black Lives Matter movement gained prominence, and Black trauma became a critical point of conversation within both corporate and civil spheres. More recently, the death of Tyre Nichols has incited…
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Relational Trauma Repair
If you’ve experienced relational trauma or suffer from complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD), treatment for these issues will likely involve a combination of different types of therapies. One particularly beneficial treatment is relational trauma repair, an experiential group therapy that uses specific exercises to teach emotional literacy and self- and co-regulation.
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The Impact of Little “t” Traumas
Trauma is usually talked about in terms of big, life-altering events: the sudden death of a loved one, a natural disaster, a violent assault. In reality, trauma comes in all shapes and sizes, and while these big events are indeed traumatic, little events can be traumatic, too.
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What Is Religious Trauma Syndrome?
What is religious trauma syndrome (RTS)? This is a term for the trauma disorder that develops as a result of suffering mental or physical abuse in religious environments or under the guise of religion. Because religion is often very personal and has a strong structure for authority, it has been used by certain individuals and…
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When Abuse Claims are Tried in Public
Considering how shockingly commonplace domestic abuse is, there’s probably a case, or a number of cases, being reviewed in court somewhere as you read this. Nearly 20 people every minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). That breaks down to more…
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Mother’s Day Grief
If you find yourself in a love-hate relationship with the second Sunday in May, you’re not alone. Not even close, according to HuffPost reporting. Mother’s Day grief is real, and it looks a little different for everyone.
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How Internal Family Systems Therapy Helps Heal Addiction
Addiction doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Beneath the behaviors, there are often deep emotional wounds—trauma, shame, pain, fear—that we try to numb or avoid. These experiences don’t just disappear. They settle inside us and often show up in ways we don’t fully understand. That’s where Internal Family Systems therapy, or IFS, comes in. Internal Family…
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Pursuing Post-Traumatic Growth
By Melissa Riddle Chalos There’s nothing like a full-on, worldwide pandemic to bring life as we know it to a crashing, hard stop. We were moving along at a nice clip, working our jobs, going to school, raising our families and then, boom! The entire world stopped on a dime. Since March of 2020, we’ve…
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What Is Racialized Trauma?: Resmaa Menakem and the Work of Racial Healing
By Wesley Gallagher As a young child, Resmaa Menakem used to sit with his grandmother on the couch and rub her hands. One day as he studied them, he asked her why they were so thick and rough compared to the rest of her tiny, delicate body. What she told him would stay with him…
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Will COVID Cause a Mental Health Crisis?
By now we all know the drill: Wash your hands, wear a mask, keep your distance, stay home. Has our country ever been more health-conscious? The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to focus on our physical health in order to avoid getting sick or passing on the virus unsuspectingly. But now health experts are warning…
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Trauma’s Rising Public Profile
By Wesley Gallagher Trauma—it’s a big word with many connotations. Terms like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have entered the American lexicon, tied to news of terrorist attacks or stories of combat soldiers. But trauma is something that is experienced in big and small ways by people in all circumstances (no war zone required). The media…