How to Heal Yours Subconscious Wounds. The body holds onto wounds from early childhood and shows up in different ways. Traumatic events people ignore can also flare up if triggers arise. In fact, the body retains memories of trauma. Bessel van der Kolk writes about this in his book, The...
As a parent, the last thing you ever want to deal with is trauma that affects your child, but there are many situations wherechildhood traumacan occur, and most are likely out of your control. Child trauma can occur when there’s family violence or an event such as violence at school. ...
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The Center for Disease Control has estimated that over half of our nation's children have experienced at least one or two types of childhood trauma. That adversity can have lasting effects. When I began to have opportunities to speak and advocate for students and for teachers, I found myself...
It’s an emotional rollercoaster, and it’s human nature to want to protect yourself from that kind of pain. But what happens when you want to get into grad school, apply for a promotion, or ask for an extension on your taxes? When you begin working to heal your inner child, you ...
Trauma triggers can re-traumatize us if we don’t deal with them.3Coping with trauma triggers comes down to dealing with the past trauma they are connected to. Once you resolve and heal from the underlying trauma, you’re also able to manage your triggers. ...
Isolated, lost, and depressed, I finally realized that the hurt inside me was hurting the people I love the most—my own children. I didn’t want to pass my trauma and my parents’ trauma down to the next generation, so I made a promise to myself to heal as best I could. ...
How to Heal Trauma with Mindset Shifts From childhood wounds to traumatic experiences, we all carry trauma with us throughout our lives. But the good news is that we don’t have to allow traumatic experiences to limit us or replay in our mind — even if they happened over a decade...
Is it possible for women who have experienced sexual trauma to begin to enjoy sex again? A Absolutely. Although the effects of a sexual trauma can be lasting for some women, it is important to remember that many women heal from the effects of an unwanted sexual encounter. Women are incredib...
Making Connections That Help Us Heal I am grateful I saw a psychologist at such a young age. She planted the seed for bringing my awareness to connections between illness and trauma. However, for decades following these sessions, no one else made these connections, and gradually I forgot about...