Trauma

Healing is not about never being triggered again. This is because bad things, scary things, and worrisome things continue to occur in our lives. (Just look around at the world right now) If we are healing, we acknowledge this fact of life. It is natural…

Traditional models of attachment focus on the relationship between the child and their caregivers. As mentioned previously, there’s also the Nested Model of attachment proposed by Jessica Fern which suggests that attachment is shaped across many different levels of human experience. Today I want to…

In honor of September being CPTSD Awareness month, let’s talk about what CPTSD is. CPTSD stands for Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and it develops as the result of repeated and on-going trauma. The fact that the trauma is chronic, it therefore results in more…

Over the last few weeks I’ve been going over the different attachment styles and how they are primarily the result of how our caregivers related to us. Attachment styles are not set in stone, they can change, because we change based on our relationship experiences.…

We aren’t talking nearly enough about the current administration is retraumatizing for clients who grew up with emotionally and verbally abusive, gaslighting, authoritarian, or narcissistic caregivers.   When we talk about how hard it is to heal when you are living in the same environment…

Disorganized attachment develops when the caregivers are sources of fear, and it’s highly correlated with abuse. These caregivers may be terrifyingly over-responsive or frighteningly unresponsive, or may vacillate between these two. Caregivers who are consistently contradictory in their communication can create disorganized attachment, such as…