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 day, surroundings. Name (out loud or say … [Read more...]
Quote by Dag Hammarskjold
Other than in situations of danger or personal safety, denying your own experience for the sake of peace and quiet is not usually healthy. Because when you deny your own experience or convictions you are left feeling disquieted. Why do we prioritize the peace and quiet of others over our own … [Read more...]
Sexual Assault Awareness
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 rape in her lifetime. One in 33 men have … [Read more...]
Quote by Dr. Colette Lord
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 our brain is responsible for the ‘decision’ on how … [Read more...]
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