You’re at Target with your little sidekick. You just said “no” to a tantalizing endcap displaying pastel Easter eggs and yellow marshmallow Peeps, and brace yourself for what’s coming. Your hissed commands, negotiation, and desperate attempt to make it stop are no...
The reason traumatic events pack such a powerful punch boils down to survival. Back in the day, anyone who was blasé about tigers and other threats didn’t last very long. Our brains are wired to obsess over a traumatic event because it thinks our survival depends on...
What is trauma? Whenever your sense of safety is disrupted, your mind and body take notice. The aftermath, how much it disrupts your life, is dictated by how you are affected by the experience and the steps you take to heal. Let’s take a look at the five main examples...
Many people think all that happens in therapy is talk, talk, talk. However, therapists have a lot of tricks and tools up their sleeve, and EMDR is one of them. In fact, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) has proven so effective, it has become...
One moment you’re just living life, and the next moment you’re pinned upside down in a vehicle with smoke seeping through the dash. Traumatic occurrences happen to all of us, and if we don’t take the time to properly process the experience, they can (and will!) have...
You’ve been wanting to start therapy, but have a friend who has been seeing the same therapist for ten years. TEN YEARS! That’s a long time. You have something you’d like to resolve, ASAP, and want to know: how long does this process take? As you can probably...
