Think of the holiday season as a perfect storm for mental health challenges. So many people struggle more at this time of year than any other. Maybe it's the extra pressure to spend more, do more and be more. Maybe it's the winter blues that make us more prone to SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). Maybe it's extra pressure at work or family obligations? Lets get ahead of the problems...
Read MoreYou’re a good parent and you’re searching for the right words to use when preparing your child how to navigate covid. Well, if you’re honest, you’re trying to get your own footing- how can you help your little (or not-so-little) ones with the new worldwide pandemic?
We have some tips for you. Read full blog below.
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Read MoreLooking for some tips to use at home, right now, to help with your PTSD and trauma symptoms? I’ve got your back. Here, I’ve written some tips with lots of psycho education and real-time tools you can use to help calm your mind and body so you can have less panic and more ease.
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Read MoreIf you're human, you get triggered. I get triggered. We all get triggered. Triggers are part of the emotional experience on this world. However, in order to live a flexible and healthy life, we want to help you demystify your personal triggers so that you can understand them. Doing this will help you heal and learn to cope better in response to the next ones that come up.
What is a trigger?
A trigger is the feeling you get when something happens and you have a sudden flood of negative feelings. For example, someone makes a half joking-half mean comment, and it hits a raw spot for you, and you feel destabilized by anxiety, shame, doubt, panic or sadness for the rest of the day.
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Continuing upward on the stairwell of trauma healing is Phase Two, referred to by Herman as Remembrance and Mourning. This phase often involves treating the traumatic memory, by form of narrative processing or by working through secondary side effects that have been left on the mind, body or soul. Somatic psychotherapy, EMDR, expressive arts, IFS, TF-CBT and Ego State work, amongst other modalities, have been scientifically proven effective in treating memories without diving too deeply into the narrative, avoiding the risk of re-traumatization.
Allison sits across me, her body tight, shoulders leaned forward. I remember the first time we met, her eyes had darted across the room looking for danger, feeling hyper-vigilant, her body stuck in fight and flight response.
