Learn about how trauma affects the brain and body, the stages of recovery, and the psychology behind healing. These articles deepen your understanding and help you make sense of your experiences.
This experience taught me the important lesson that it was time to reduce anxiety: I was sitting in my car surrounded by other cars. The traffic jam on the highway seemed endless. I felt trapped. My hands started sweating. I could hardly breathe. How much longer would this take? I dreaded the idea to drive…
When I first began my own healing journey from childhood abuse, I had no idea what recovery looked like or what I would need to get there. The first therapist I worked with operated from the medical model. At the core of our relationship, she looked at me through the lens of “what is wrong…
Trauma is a word we hear constantly, but what trauma actually is is rarely explained clearly enough to be useful. Trauma is not just a difficult event. It is what happens when an experience overwhelms the nervous system’s capacity to process and integrate what occurred. This article offers a deeper look at what trauma is,…
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