Dissociation

“You can’t change the past, but it’s infinitely reframable. You can tell the same story over and over in a hundred different ways, and every version is a little right, and every version is a little wrong.” – Maria Adelmann in How To Be Eaten…

Resilience is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk & adversity. One aspect of resiliency is cognitive fitness. Cognitive fitness is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk & adversity. To be healthy is to be flexible & adapt…

Emotional fitness is the ability to enhance positive emotions, self-regulate emotions, and enhance one’s relationship to emotions by tapping into acceptance and mindfulness strategies.  When emotionally aroused or triggered practice ‘opposite action’ to unhealthy solutions you normally engage in.  Instead of avoiding situations or reminders…

Getting excited about this week’s EMDRIA conference and so I’m diving back into Queering EMDR Therapy, edited by Roshini Chabra, LMFT. In the chapter by horizon greene, LCSW, they write, “Knowing that we heal when we have access to both enough activation (a foot in…

One strategy I’ve discussed for building resilience is developing an ‘attitude of gratitude.’  Sometimes people have big feelings and reactions to this suggestion, because it gets a bad rep because of how it’s used in toxic positivity.  Cultivating a gratitude practice is not about denying…

Resilience is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk and adversity.  Today we continue this series by exploring interpersonal fitness.  This is the capacity to foster, engage in and sustain positive relationships.  It’s about developing a network of support from others.  It’s…