Psychoeducation

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…

March 31st each year is a day to celebrate the contributions of trans people to our lives and to our culture. Trans women and femmes of color have made major contributions to the Gay Civil rights movement, playing a large part in the Stonewall uprising.…

It has been a while since I posted about grounding skills, and I thought they might be especially useful right now. Grounding skills are things that can help ground us into the reality of the here-and-now. This is a useful skill to have when triggers…

This internal conflict in those with either a single trauma or complex trauma is quite common. The more unconscious this conflict is, the more precarious recovery can be as the person is likely to feel or believe that no conflict exists, and then act accordingly.…

A common misconception people have about change is that it needs to be drastic to be worthy of making. I think some of this comes from the fact that we often wait until things are unbearable or unmanageable to make a change, and so we…