Does childhood trauma affect you as an adult? Learn coping skills in online therapy How to heal from childhood trauma through therapy Just as your childhood trauma may be a unique and individual experience, your path to healing from it will likely be specific to you. Recovering from childhood ...
Triggers lead to re-experiencing trauma Trauma triggers place you back into the previous traumatic experience mentally. As a result, you believe and feel that the trauma is occurring in the present. This current sense of threat leads to avoidance behaviors like suppressing traumatic thoughts and ...
Childhood traumatic stress is the psychological reaction that children have to a traumatic event, whether it happens to them or they see it happen to someone else. These events can affect children’s brains, emotions, and behavior in the same way traumatic events can affect adults. Sometimes, g...
Every couple I’ve ever worked with has their dark underbelly of behaviors they feel foolish or embarrassed about. Because all intimate relationships have a crisscross symbolic parent/child component, it is impossible for a couple to avoid triggering each other’schildhoodtrauma at t...
Is it ever too late to resolve an issue around sexual trauma? A Not at all. In fact, many women do not seek out the support they need right after an assault because, for some of them, they try to make sense of what happened on their own. “How did this happen?”“How could this...
Trauma contributes to physical symptoms in the body. In other words, one of my traumas—my parents’ divorce– made me sick. After years of therapy, I came to understand that anxiety is a mental health condition. Anxiety can present with many symptoms, one of which is tachycardia, or a ...
There will be a lot of healing to do after a lifetime of toxic stress. You may feel guilty about saying “bad things about your mother.” Individual therapy can be a safe place to share memories or get support without being judged. ...
So treat yourself with some compassion and explore what need you were trying to satisfy. Was it the need to be loved? The need to be respected? The need to be seen? The need to be heard? The need to feel safe? By understanding your underlying need, a certain level of guilt and sham...
A birthday get-together changes tone when Michael invites an old, straight friend along. After drinks, tensions come to a head. Each partygoer is confronted with the shame that hangs over gay men of the time, whether in or out of the closet. ...
Family foster care deeply influences the needs of children and how these are satisfied. To increase our knowledge of foster children’s needs and how