Dissociation

There are a variety of reasons you may have difficulty identifying or expressing emotions, we call this alexithymia. One reason might be growing up in a home where emotions were not allowed or encouraged. In that type of environment, the child does not have an…

Words have power, and being able to speak your truth and tell your story has profound healing potential. In many ways therapy is about giving words to wordless experiences. It is giving others a language to use to describe their experience. By putting things into…

I love fantasy novels, when I am not reading a psychology book I like to get lost in worlds of unicorns, mermaids and sorceresses. And I love how this quote from The Last Unicorn encapsulates the love that I hope people can find. For we…

This is a continuation of the discussion around fight/flight/freeze/flag/faint response is your body’s physiological response to threat. It is triggered by a release of hormones in your body when your nervous system perceives a threat. This perception of threat happens before conscious thought and is…

This is a continuation of the discussion around fight/flight/freeze response is your body’s physiological response to threat. It is triggered by a release of hormones in your body when your nervous system perceives a threat. This perception of threat happens before conscious thought and is…

The fight, flight or freeze response is your body’s physiological response to threat. It is triggered by a release of hormones in your body when your nervous system perceives a threat. This perception of threat happens before conscious thought and is not a conscious choice…