At My Trauma Coach, Trauma Recovery Specialist, Award-Nominated Author & Healed Survivor, Michele Rosenthal, helps entrepreneurs, artists, and spirited professionals learn how to heal trauma/PTSD with a combination of coaching, hypnosis and NLP.
Reliving is an integral part of trauma-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), a recommended treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with a convincing evidence base supporting its use. However, the literature suggests that clinicians are reluctant to use reliving in therapy. The aim...
Yes, guilt and shame are important to feel, but only up until a certain point. We need to mourn and regret our behavior, but we also need to make space to learn from our mistakes and change as a person. Here’s how self-forgiveness helps us: We stop dwelling in (and endlessly reli...
"Being triggered means that you experience a strong negative emotional reaction in response to a current situation that is disturbing to you in some way. For individuals with a history of trauma or abuse, triggers are often stimuli that bring up involuntary memories of their traumatic past experi...
Content warning: Please be advised, the below article might mention trauma-related topics that could be triggering to the reader. Please see our Get Help Now page for more immediate resources. The phrase "going crazy" may be a response to emotions, mental health symptoms, or behaviors caused ...
Keep reading to learn more about relationship PTSD. Defining Relationship PTSD Whether a relationship involves physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, any abusive relationship can be a source of deep and lasting trauma. Leaving the intimate relationship can potentially stop the abuse. Still, someone ...
(2) Some people who have experienced trauma may process that event by reliving in their dreams, Frank adds. How to Start Interpreting Your Dreams You can start interpreting your dreams anytime — even tonight! When you decipher your dreams, keep the goal to bring out issues that may stay...
Then we can move forward to visit the wounded child within. We don’t want the person reliving what happened and getting stuck there. If we go back and reprocess a trauma from childhood, we want to help them feel safe and aware that they are no longer that helpless child. Viewing ...
More severe trauma might prompt panic attacks or physical pain associated with the incident, like a painful wrist when recalling a bad sprain. Research has also found that our bodies can respond to traumatic events by struggling to sleep. Our bodies feel exhausted, but we’re so agitated ...
Another study done on memory loss involves head trauma. This can lead to transient post concussive syndrome. Symptoms are mental dullness, poor memory, depressed mood, and headaches. These symptoms can last a few days or a few weeks. Often after a tragedy such as a vehicle accident that cau...