Coping Skills and Videos

Let’s talk about resilience.  People tend to think of resilience as this innate, inborn quality that some people have and some people do not, but it’s a capacity that can be built within ourselves and within our communities. Resilience is the ability to adapt and…

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 child…

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 power & choice refers to reminding yourself of the ways in which you have power & choices now, that you didn’t have when…

Trauma time refers to the experience of feeling like you are still in the trauma (there-and-then), instead of the here-and-now. One way to cope with trauma time is by utilizing time orientation skills, which involves reminding yourself of how the here-and-now is different from the…

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 feeling as though they are still in that time period of their lives when the trauma…

Previously I have posted on using various senses to ground when triggered. Today I want to cognitive grounding. Often the need for grounding comes from being overwhelmed by emotions in some way (right brain activation), so activating the logical/rational side of our brains (left brain)…