One of the trickiest aspects of childhood emotional neglect is knowing that you experienced it in the first place. Truly, it’s hard to know that you missed out on something if it was never there to begin with. This often leads people to wonder, “What’s the big...
Your instinct is to never talk about it. The details are too much to bear anyway, and even though logically you know it’s not your fault, shame has a grip on you. You have never shared the impact it had, how it ruined your life. How it’s always there, casting a shadow...
Loving a first responder often means loving someone who lives in regular contact with things most people never have to see. You may have expected the schedule strain, the fatigue, the unpredictability. What you may not have expected is how much of that job would end...
How Does Trauma Affect Relationships? You can love each other and still feel like something keeps going wrong. Maybe you have had the same painful argument so many times that now even the beginning of it feels familiar. Maybe it is not an explosive conflict at all....
If you are about to start EMDR, or you have just begun and are wondering what to expect, here is the most important thing to know: not every EMDR session looks the same. Early sessions are usually focused on preparation, safety, and resourcing. The deeper trauma...
If you have ever tried to explain something painful and felt your mind go blank, your body go numb, or your words disappear halfway through a sentence, that is not a sign that you are doing therapy wrong. Trauma is often hard to talk about for reasons that make...
