Trauma

It has been a while since I posted about grounding skills, and I thought they might be especially useful right now. Grounding skills are things that can help ground us into the reality of the here-and-now. This is a useful skill to have when triggers…

My heart goes out to the AAPI community and the families who lost loved ones in the attacks in Atlanta so clearly driven by racism and misogyny. Asian and Pacific Islander lives matter Sex workers’ lives matter Immigrants lives matter Women’s lives matter And all…

This internal conflict in those with either a single trauma or complex trauma is quite common. The more unconscious this conflict is, the more precarious recovery can be as the person is likely to feel or believe that no conflict exists, and then act accordingly.…

I just finished a training series called Complex Trauma and Dissociation Across the Lifespan with three amazing clinicians: Ana Gomez, Dolores Mosquera, and Kathy Steele. As with any good training, I took away old concepts understood in new ways. The above quote is from one…

Often when clients come into therapy one of the first things we do is start working on language, although that is not what we call it. Sometimes it is not so much developing a new language as it is making sure that the words, we…

Dissociative Identity Disorder Awareness day is happening this year on March 4. The aim is to reduce stigma and increase awareness and compassion for individuals with this diagnosis. This year the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISST-D.org) will be holding a…