Honoring Your Window of Tolerance
The last couple of years have been plagued with never-ending trauma and bad news. While this isn’t the first time...
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Ways PTSD Can Manifest in Our Bodies, ...
PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions. – Susan Pease Banitt Individuals...
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6 Effective Stress Management Techniques
If there is one thing that is constant about life, it’s that there are always changes and challenges for us...
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Recognizing Emotional Abuse
Broken bones mend. Black eyes fade. But the unseen wounds and invisible scars of emotional battering remain. ...
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Counseling, Attachment Therapy, and ...
“I believe, in the fall, we shed like the trees.” This thought floated into my awareness of the moving pavement,...
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Even the healthiest of relationships sometimes goes through times of struggle and disconnect. Life circumstances, differing expectations, personality clashes, and...
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Trauma, by its broadest definition, is everywhere. In various segments on the nightly news, in one Bible story after another,...
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Emotionally intelligent people can express empathy, the ability to step into another person’s shoes, seeing and feeling things from their...
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How Trauma Can Impact Our Bodies
Trauma rewires our brains. It turns on our fight/flight/freeze response. Our brains often struggle to recover from this. The human...
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Why Grief Counseling May Be Exactly ...
It is a common misconception that grief counseling is only for the person who cannot get out of bed because...
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Natural disasters. Sexual assault. Physical assault. Witnessing an act of violence. The sudden death of a parent or close friend....
continue reading » 9 Bible Verses about Grief
Life often catches us off-guard with its messiness. Grief intrudes into our lives, whether it’s through the loss of a...
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