Trauma

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,…

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. A powerful way to help ground is through the use of smell. However, it is important to be aware…

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. There are endless varieties of grounding skills and in coming posts I will be reviewing different categories of grounding…

This is a quote Elyn Saks who a professor of Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School She is also diagnosed with Schizophrenia and has written about her experience in the book The Center…

We all make mistakes. In my work, I often find that people feel trapped by these mistakes, like they should be defined by them or that somehow having made a mistake in the past that they cannot change it. But that is simply not true.…

This weekend I had an amazing time attending my first EMDRIA conference, which is a gathering of EMDR therapists that happens once a year. This year one of the guest speakers was Gabor Maté. He is a Hungarian born Canadian doctor who has done a…