Trauma

Could we all just agree to stop telling each other to get over it? Please? In my experience, the vast majority of people would get over it if they could. No matter how big or small the trauma was, no one wants to be living…

Distress tolerance is a set of skills for helping you learn to tolerate emotional distress and upset. Self-soothing is one set of distress tolerance skills. In the ideal situation, these self-soothing skills are learned from an early age in the parent-child relationship so that the…

When was the last time you had loving, appreciative thoughts towards your body? My guess is no, so many of us have poor relationships with and opinions of our bodies. This is often due to societal or family messages about who we should be or…

Distress tolerance are strategies we use to cope with emotional upset or distress. Everyone in life has experienced emotional upset or distress. It is inevitable. However, not everyone has learned healthy or useful distress tolerance skills. This can happen when there is attachment trauma and…

A state of extreme alert to potential danger. This can occur in a number of different mental health disorders, but is most closely tied to PTSD and even in other diagnoses seems to stem from a traumatic experience and resulting in the perceived need to…

This pretty much sums up the therapy process when doing trauma work. It can often feel like things get worse before they get better. This is because so often what we are doing in therapy is going back into our histories and revisiting some of…