Coping Skills and Videos

When doing work with trauma, we often talk about trauma time. Trauma time refers to how people (or parts/alters) who’ve gone through trauma can get stuck in thinking and reacting as though they are still in that period of their lives when the trauma was…

Time orientation skills involve reminding yourself that you are in the here-and-now, rather than in the there-and-then (i.e. trauma time). The category of comfort refers to reminding yourself of the ways in which you can offer yourself comfort that you couldn’t when you were a…

Time orientation skills involve reminding yourself that you are in the here-and-now, rather than in the there-and-then. There are several categories of time orientation skills: time, distance, power, choice, & comfort. Focusing on the categories of power & choice is about reminding yourself of all…

A message during for those feeling overwhelmed, sad, angry, grieving and/or hopeless right now: Allow yourself space to feel your feelings and honor them as they are valid and need to be felt. AND….then we can look at how to cope and feel better, after…

As discussed previously, grounding is an important coping strategy for when you are feeling disconnected from yourself, your body, your thoughts, etc. It can be a useful skill for when triggers bring you into the past, a feeling of being there-and-then in the traumatic moment.…

Often the need for grounding comes from being overwhelmed by emotions in some way. When you are triggered, you are deep in your emotion brain and it feels like the bad/traumatic thing is happening right now. Therefore, activating the logical/rational side of our brains can…