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Posted: October 12, 2020
EMDR therapy is powerful and can be used to help transform all types of traumatic experiences. Individuals from marginalized groups – BIPOC, women, disabled, and the LGBTQIA+ communities, to name a few, face microaggressions that can lead to symptoms and experiences similar to PTSD. Microaggressions…
Posted: October 7, 2020
How many of us need to sit down and decide to love ourselves? Despite what our body looks like? Despite how others perceive us? Despite all those internalized messages that beat us down for our looks, our skin color, our gender, who we love? I…
Posted: October 3, 2020
There is a lot of misunderstanding and fear regarding hearing voices , having visions etc. According to the Hearing Voices Network (www.hearing-voices.org), somewhere between 3 and 10% of the people have experiences like these (increasing to about 75% if you include one off experiences like…
Posted: September 30, 2020
This week I am attending the annual EMDR conference in a virtual format. Although I miss the chance to connect in real life with others who share my passion, I am always excited to learn more and hone my skills. I am very happy that…
Posted: September 28, 2020
In this final post on resiliency we are looking at the aspect of spiritual fitness. For the purposes of this post, we are defining spirituality in it’s broadest sense, as connecting to something greater than yourself. This does not necessarily mean religion, although for some…
Posted: September 23, 2020
This is a day that is meant to bring visibility to the bisexual community who are too often lost in the discussion of LGBTQIA+ issues. Bisexual still face discrimination and bias from both the heterosexual and the homosexual communities. According to the CDC approximately 0.8-1.75%…