When you experience trauma, it directly influences your mental health in the form of uncertainty and confusion. This change not only affects your personal life but also disturbs your profession. Therefore, somatic exercises are one of the best solutions to see and understand things clearly. Through this, you can easily fight depression, anxiety, and emptiness. In […]
When you go through a trauma, your brain typically fails to perform. It shifts to survival mode, ultimately affecting your mental health, memory, brain functioning, and brain structure. Moreover, after facing trauma, you cannot usually survive in your routine. There is a considerable difference between trauma brain vs normal brain, but in most cases, the […]
Sharing your appreciation is so much bigger than just “being nice”. When someone feels cared for and appreciated, they feel like their efforts were worth it, they feel like they are valued for who they are, and they feel like their life is worth living. And that is the power of appreciation. When we look […]
How to Circle the Drain of Caregiving and Come Out Sparkly Clean When you look at your loved one and wish that you could share – and sometimes take away – the intense pain that they’re feeling, you have officially arrived at the title of caregiver. The good news is that in order to receive […]
Bzzzz! Beep Beep! Ding! Our attention is being pulled into so many different directions. There are so many notifications grabbing our attention. Work deadlines looming. Traffic after work. Dinner needs to be made. Our energy is being diverted in so many different ways. The way to sustain and be at your highest self is…self-care. Self-care […]
The essence of healing is connection – first, to yourself. Then, to others. Your human nature directs you to seek bonding. You are, biologically and neurologically, wired for this. Unfortunately, when carrying unhealed trauma, you could seek harmful connections because you’re disconnected from yourself. Trauma is that very separation from the body and emotions.- Gabor […]
Art therapy and Trauma informed art therapy Art therapy is a combination of psychological approaches and art to address psychological, psycho-social, emotional, and behavioral issues. The goal of art therapy sessions is often to improve the individual’s overall well-being and reduce the negative symptoms of disorders. According to the American Art Therapy Association, “art therapy […]
Depression can take as many forms as the people who experience it. And given that it will affect almost all of us at some point in our lives, it’s important to be able to recognize the signs — both the common signs and the ones you might not expect. Learning to identify the symptoms of […]
How to Check your Self Worth in Two Minutes: Complex Trauma, Safety, and Radical Empathy Complex trauma has earned its name for being just that: layered, invasive helplessness. It can feel like too much weight to bear or to survive. See if this helps: picture an ant carrying an elephant uphill. This type of struggle […]
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