The need to independently handle everything that life throws at you can become second nature, somewhat of a valuable trait. But what if this hyper-independence is actually a defense mechanism that comes from past trauma?
Post-Traumatic Growth: A Realistic View of Positive Changes
Are Loneliness & Trauma Linked?
In the aftermath of certain traumas, you may feel a decreased sense of safety. Having been a victim of violence or abuse can rob you of your feelings of security. Not feeling safe and secure can lead to disruption of social activity and acting within social norms, even with those you have previously been acquainted with. These types of trauma can trigger feelings of loneliness.
What is Repressed Trauma?
No matter how well you can repress your memories, they will find a way to work themselves out and interfere in some fashion. Over time, they can increase your likelihood of developing various illnesses and struggles. You may have to come face-to-face with those memories that you’ve repressed, but healing is on the other side.
How Trauma Alters Your Sense of Time
What Causes Attachment Trauma?
Suffering from PTSD? 3 Ways EFT Therapy Can Help
How Your Body Remembers Trauma
How to Find a Trauma Therapist
How EMDR Works for Complicated Trauma
Healing From Birth Trauma
Understanding the Lasting Effects of Birth Trauma
Why do Trauma Survivors have Intimacy and Attachment Issues?
This dichotomy shows up in our adult relationships in several ways. Often we can feel the strong desire and need for relating while still carrying the need for keeping oneself safe. It can be extremely confusing to ourselves and others. We want to draw close but push others away or create space and safety sometimes without even knowing it. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver.
How to Cope With Earthquake Vicarious Trauma
If you’ve been watching the scenes coming out of Turkey and Syria you’ve probably been affected. Maybe you are even experiencing vicarious trauma. Vicarious trauma happens when you feel emotional pain, terror, fear and helplessness from exposure to others peoples’ trauma. For instance, imagining what it’s like to be stuck under rubble from the earthquake, losing your entire family or becoming homeless.
Medical Trauma: Why Women Are Particularly Vulnerable
When it comes to trauma, no single person is immune. However, women are twice as likely to experience some type of traumatic event than men. With medical trauma, that scale can be tipped even a little further. Medical trauma is considered a physiological or psychological response to some negative, likely traumatic, experience within a medical setting.
Political Trauma: Signs, Symptoms, & Treatment
Unpacking Religious Trauma: 5 Ways to Start the Journey
Is EMDR Right for Those Without Trauma?
The way EMDR and many other therapies now conceptualize trauma is with a much broader scope than traditionally thought. It isn’t just limited veterans who have seen combat or people who were abused as children - though those experiences certainly qualify as trauma and often result in a PTSD diagnosis.
5 Ways IFS Therapy Treats Trauma
Do you believe that we are all made of different parts? After all, not everyone is all bad or all good. Human beings have a combination of helpful and harmful amounts of themselves. Unfortunately, trauma has a way of bringing out the worst in us. INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS) is a type of therapy that helps you discover who you are and bring all of these parts together. The three main parts include: Exiles, Managers and Firefighters.
4 Ways Trauma Bonding Negatively Impacts Your Relationships
Unfortunately, when two people have a traumatic history in a relationship, it can create something called “trauma bonding.” It can even happen in your relationships with family members or friends. It’s easy for abusers to shift the perspective of their victims, often using gaslighting techniques. They can get you to change the way you view what happened, or what continues to happen. Instead of recognizing that you’re the victim, they can end up making you feel like you’re the one to blame.
