Dissociation

Grounding is a profoundly important coping skill to learn to deal with dissociation in the moment when it’s occurring. Grounding skills are a set of strategies to help you connect to the reality of the here-and-now when you are feeling disconnected from yourself, your body,…

Sometimes, the only way to stay alive and breathing is to pretend it never happened. Over time, you can let it in, piece by piece, but if you do it all at once, you could drown yourself in grief. Fragile Sanctuary by Catherine Cowles In…

I’m excited to announce that I will be helping to facilitate a virtual EMDR Basic Training this fall with Precision EMDR Academy!! Precision EMDR Academy is made up of a number of wonderfully empathic and knowledgeable therapists with advanced skills in applying EMDR therapy to…

Since we’ve been talking so much about dissociation, what it is, and how we work with it, I also want to spend some time on talking about how to cope with dissociation. These suggestions are not specific to coping with dissociation when it’s occurring. These…

In honor of August being California’s Transgender History month, I wanted to share some of what I’ve learned about the history of Indigenous understandings of gender. This understanding is rooted in tradition and continue to be living, breathing traditions and identities today. Since I am…

Trauma time is the experience of being stuck in a traumatic experience, such that the brain loses touch with the here and now of the present day. That’s because our trauma memories are stored differently than our regular memories and are not connected to an…