Trauma

As I posted earlier, according to the DSM 5, PTSD can develop if you go through a traumatic event, if you witness a traumatic event happening, learning of the traumatic event happening to a close family member or friend, or repeated exposure to traumatic events…

Your nervous system is what is responsible for managing danger and threat. When you have gone through trauma, especially early and/or on-going trauma, this system can get set to always on. This means that your nervous system may respond to any kind of threat as…

In doing work on attachment wounds and trauma work is often so strange. Our ability to know and not know at the same time is part of that strangeness. The truth that you may know a truth about your family or how you were raised,…

There is often a point in healing from the past that we get in touch with some compassion and understanding for those who have caused us harm. This may be a greater compassion and understanding for their limits, their own struggles, and unhealed wounds. That does…

I find that sometimes clients are confused by what healing from a trauma might look like or mean for them. Misunderstanding of what healing means can block the process of healing or resolving the trauma. These misunderstandings might be that healing will mean that they…

There are a variety of reasons you may have difficulty identifying or expressing emotions, we call this alexithymia. One reason might be growing up in a home where emotions were not allowed or encouraged. In that type of environment, the child does not have an…