Jan 30, 2022 | CBT, Mental Health
Know anyone who routinely overreacts? You never know how they’ll act. Maybe you avoid talking to them–too much drama. Or you engage and immediately regret it. It seems they are always in the middle of a capital-C Catastrophe. Or at least, inviting one. Is it a...
Jan 23, 2022 | EMDR, Mental Health
If you are a trauma survivor, you probably carry around painful memories. Sometimes these memories can be truly disruptive to your psyche, and the result is an inability to manage crucial relationships or react in a normative way to the behavior of others. This...
Jan 14, 2022 | Ending Sexual Abuse, Healing Trauma
When I was a kid, and my brother would get in trouble, I would taunt him with the sing-song, “Ah-oh, who’s in trouble now?” and wiggle my head back and forth in glee. (Ah, siblings…) Waking to the news of Queen Elizabeth’s “stunning rebuke” of Prince Andrew,...
Jan 8, 2022 | Ending Sexual Abuse, Healing Trauma, Mental Health
I wanted to write about forgiveness, but I got stopped in my tracks. (Sort of.) Let’s think about how forgiveness is such a crucial topic for us multi-trauma survivors. Through therapy and talking with our support system, many of us learn to forgive ourselves....
Dec 29, 2021 | Ending Sexual Abuse, Healing Trauma, Parenting
One in six. That’s the number of American women who have experienced sexual assault in their lifetimes. (Source: RAINN’s website) One in nine. That’s the number of girls under the age of 18 who have experienced sexual abuse or assault at the hands of an adult...
