Trauma

Grounding skills help reorient a person to the present to the here-and-now. They are vitals tools to have when you deal with anxiety, flashbacks and dissociation. Touch is a very important grounding skill and is pretty much available to you at all times. One way…

Time is not the great healer we have been taught to believe, not where trauma is concerned. That is because traumatic memories are stored differently than regular memories. They are stored in surround sound, with all the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that were there at…

I work a lot with folks who come from abusive, neglectful, toxic or chaotic homes and families. And when doing this work, I hear this type of sentiment all the time. As human beings we are hardwired to want acceptance from our caretakers, that is…

Grounding skills help reorient a person to the present to the here-and-now. They are vitals tools to have when you deal with anxiety, flashbacks and dissociation. Grounding with sound can be as simple as listening for what sounds you hear around you in the here…

Progress is important. There is a saying in the addiction world, progress not perfection. I know very few people that can fly, but so often this is the expectation people have for themselves. Then when that isn’t possible, they beat themselves us, often assuming they…

Feelings are an important part of the human experience. However, depending on how a person is raised they may have difficulty with expressing emotions, feeling all emotions, or feeling certain emotions. When there has been developmental or complex trauma from growing up in an abusive,…