Tag: trauma recovery
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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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What Is Brain Mapping, and How Does It Help?
By understanding and training the brain to function more effectively, brain mapping therapy can help individuals find a sense of balance, improve emotional regulation, and support long-term recovery.
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EMDR & Brain Health
What is EMDR? EMDR stands for “eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.” It’s an effective, low-impact form of therapy used for the treatment of conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and other mental health conditions.
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Trauma Goes Mainstream
No longer a cultural taboo, there have been a number of celebrity mental health advocates who have opened up about their struggles so that others can feel less alone.
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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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A Return to Uncertainty: Tips for Staying Safe and Sane During COVID’s Second Round
Summer has been a welcome reprieve for many. We’ve had a moment to catch our breath, enjoy the soothing world of nature, and have some socially distanced fun. But as businesses and institutions open up again, uncertainty inevitably returns. Sending children to school in masks and not knowing when a virus might break out, makes…
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Why Loving What You Have Can Feel Scary for Those Who’ve Had Adverse Childhood Experiences
To ring in the New Year, I could quote statistics of how certain feelings benefit your cholesterol levels and pump up your immune system and extend your life by 2.3 years. We could discuss that science has proven that appreciation begets happiness and happiness is healthy. But you’ve already heard all that. So on the…
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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…
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How Psychodrama Heals Trauma
Learn how psychodrama therapy helps heal trauma by exploring emotions and experiences in a safe, supportive environment.
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Experiential Therapy for Trauma Treatment
By Tian Dayton, Ph.D. Understanding trauma requires us to feel the stories of our lives to heal them. Traumatic recovery is all about not feeling. Even asking someone about their trauma can be befuddling, if not disturbing, for the client who has learned to put their head down, turn off their sensitivities, and push forward.…
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The Nature of Traumatic Memory: Why Our Memories Terrifying Events are Spotty
As a psychologist who works with trauma, I am very much aware of how difficult it can be to recall details of a traumatic experience. Even the question, “can you tell me about your trauma?” can be befuddling, if not somewhat disturbing, to one who has experienced it…