Many people may not understand the reverberations of growing up in a dysfunctional household. Every house varies in the level of dysfunction witnessed by the children of that home. Most households experience some form of dysfunction at one time or another.
Clients who have experienced serious trauma in their lives may reenact their trauma during therapy sessions.
Have you ever thought that you are doomed to be in one toxic relationship after another? Have you sometimes thought that kind, caring and stable
There are many reasons and contributing factors for substance use disorders, including exposure to traumatic experiences, especially when the trauma has occurred in childhood.
Guilt is a common emotional response experienced by people who have been through traumatic experiences. This article seeks to explore the relationship between guilt and trauma.
When asked to define “trauma”, many people who don’t work in the healing community often think of it more of what we call “shock trauma”.
The body responds to threat using a response called fight-or-flight. This is also known as the acute stress response. This terminology describes the body’s physiological reaction to something that is extremely physically or mentally frightening.
Being able to set and understand boundaries is vital in recovery from trauma. Boundaries are what allow us to have a sense of who and what we are. They give us the ability to see how we differ from other people, emotionally, spiritually, physically and intellectually. They exist to protect us.
Staying present is one of the biggest challenges for those trying to recover from trauma. Triggers and flashbacks from events in the past can drag you out of reality and back into a world that no longer exists. However, there are ways to train your brain to stay present instead of torturing you with the past.
Do you feel like you are not only minimising your trauma, but also the progress you are making in recovering from it? This can be damaging both to you and to your recovery.
