Trauma

Life and the holidays as a trauma therapist can be wild!

     There are many answers to the question of ‘what is trauma?’ Trauma is not the thing that happened (or didn’t happen). Trauma refers to the emotional, psychological, or physical response to an event or series of events that are overwhelmingly distressing or harmful. It…

   Myth: Myth: Healing is linear, a steady improvement across time. Fact: Healing is messy and often includes side quests, relearning, backslides, ups & downs and all arounds. Healing rarely looks like we expect and is often a gradual process that is difficult to see…

Trauma time is the experience of being stuck in a traumatic experience, such that the brain loses touch with the here and now of the present day. That’s because our trauma memories are stored differently than our regular memories and are not connected to an…

   I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but feeling traumatized by a medical provider/clinic/procedure is valid. The medical field is just as shaped and filled with biases, prejudice, misinformation and ignorance as any other field. And the more minoritized identities you…

June is national PTSD Awareness month. For many, the concept of PTSD is linked to military service.  The reality however, is that this disorder can affect anyone.  In the US, approximately 7-8% of adults will experience PTSD in their lifetimes, although many of us who…