Psychoeducation

In previous posts we have gone over grounding using smell, taste, and touch. Today we will go over grounding by sight. Grounding skills help reorient you to the present to the here-and-now. They are vitals tools to have when you deal with anxiety, flashbacks and…

It can be really difficult and scary to learn that you have parts, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Multiple Personality Disorder, ego states, etc. Most often what I hear from clients when I share this diagnosis with them, is both fear and denial. They don’t want to…

Grounding skills help reorient a person to the present to the here-and-now. They are vitals tools to have when you deal with anxiety, flashbacks and dissociation. A powerful way to help ground is through the use of smell. However, it is important to be aware…

Grounding skills help ground us into the reality of the here-and-now. This can be useful if triggers bring us into a past traumatic memory, and can reconnect us to our bodies if we get dissociated, numbed out or frozen. Look around in your current, present…

Whether you know it or not, sexual violence impacts us all. According to RAINN, every 73 seconds in America someone is sexually assaulted and every 9 minutes that child is a victim. One in six women has been the victim of an attempted or completed…

Our survival strategies of fight, flight, freeze and fawn are controlled by a part of our brain that we sometimes refer to as our reptilian brain. Evolutionarily it has been around for a long time and it is geared towards survival.   This part of…