Trauma

This is similar to what some trauma survivors can experience, and is especially common for military personnel and veterans suffering from PTSD. When a person experiences a number of very emotionally heightened experiences, they can then come to feel that common, everyday experiences seems dull…

Being told or admired for how strong you are can sometimes be a negative thing, and if you have felt that way you are not alone. That is because it can be a subtle way of being told that you don’t have the right to…

Attachment trauma, hurt that comes from the relationships people have with their families can be quite deep and difficult to articulate. Something that I hear from my clients quite often is that their parents did the best that they could, or how their parents loved…

The parent-child relationship shapes the way a child will be as a parent and also how they learn to take care of themselves. If there was a secure attachment, with a good enough parent, then the child will be reassured, taken care of and nurtured.…

This is a quote from Debra Wesselmann’s book The Whole Parent: How to become a terrific parent even if you didn’t have one. In the book she suggests we each internalize two different parent ego states, one is the nurturing parent and the other is…

So many of us are running from something inside of us. Sometimes it is traumatic memories from the past. Sometimes it is the knowledge of who we truly are or who we truly love. Sometimes it is feelings. Sometimes it is the fallout from bad…