Trauma

  I want each and every one of you out there to be proud of who you are. I know how hard that can be living in the society that we do. It’s hard for most of us, but much more so depending on the…

Little kids are sponges and because of their (developmentally appropriate) immaturity and dependency, they believe that everything what their care givers’ say about them and teach them about themselves. This means that if they are bombarded with message about how they are unwanted, unloved, or…

Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Mulitple Personality Disorder) carries a ton of stigma and remains a controversial diagnosis in some corners of the mental health world. This stigma and the lack of education on DID and OSDD lead clients to often suffer and struggle…

  In previous posts we have gone over grounding using smell, taste, sight, and touch. Today we will go over cognitive grounding. Grounding skills help reorient you to the present to the here-and-now. They are vitals tools to have when you deal with anxiety, flashbacks…

It may seem strange to think that we need to build our tolerance for positive emotions, but it is true. We do not come into the world already knowing how to tolerate emotions, that is something learned in primary attachment relationship. The infant experiences a…

This idea that people who are strong are always supposed to be strong has always amazed me. We humans can be so all-or-nothing sometimes. None of us can be strong all the time, that’s not how humans are made. We all have moments when we…