PTSD self help will guide you towards the present moment.It’s fine to let your mind wander. But where trauma exists, you may find it difficult to wander in a healthy way.
C-PTSD Therapy: Grounding in the Midst of Madness
How do we cope when trauma shapes a significant portion of our life experience? If you were traumatized by a caregiver, an abusive partner, or even the ongoing uncertainty of a global pandemic, you may be suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).
EMDR Treatment: What Makes It So Successful?
PTSD Recovery Freedom: Are you Afraid of Getting Better? What’s Normal?
PTSD recovery freedom is an amazing testament to your growth and willingness to move forward. You deserve it! Now... How does it feel to “feel better”? Does anticipating life and relationships without the ever-present fallout of your condition feel the way you imagined? If you are experiencing the fear of recovery. Don't be alarmed. This isn’t uncommon. PTSD Recovery Freedom Can Be Scary.
EMDR Awareness Therapy: Insight Equals Better Choices
EMDR Neuroscience 101: What is it?
EMDR neuroscience has discovered that over just a few sessions, your therapist can assist improved communication between your amygdala and the hippocampus. As you and your therapist successfully process painful memories, stress is reduced, and somatic symptoms lessen. A high degree of mental and emotional arousal is decreased as flashbacks, nightmares, or panic attacks start to fade.
Complex PTSD Attachment Style: Finding "Earned" Security
Post Traumatic Growth Breakthrough Signs: Are You There?
Post traumatic growth challenges and reforms the deep beliefs that kept you stuck in your trauma. You’re not simply employing an ability to get back to yourself, you instead endure the time and struggle necessary to transform into someone with a new worldview. A worldview that wouldn’t be possible without the traumatic experience. So, how do you know if you’re experiencing post-traumatic growth?
PTSD Positive Change: 4 Secret Benefits of Trauma
Most of us can list the PTSD negatives and the harm of trauma without much effort. Yet, the idea of PTSD positive change and any potential help created by trauma may not readily spring to mind. In the midst of your hurt, the physical, mental, and emotional pain may be too overwhelming at first. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...
What is Preverbal Trauma and How is it Treated With Somatic Therapy?
EMDR Therapy Grief and Loss: 4 Ways it Heals.
Post-Traumatic Growth Evidence: How Do You Know?
What is the evidence of post-traumatic growth? Your trauma now allows you to see life differently and bounce beyond the old you. You’ve grown and changed for the better. You are starting to realize that, along with the pain and distress, came something life-changing and new. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...
Complex PTSD Nightmares: What Do They Mean?
Complex PTSD Dissociation: 5 Ways the Brain Naturally Protects During Long-term Trauma
How to Find an EMDR Therapist and What to Expect
EMDR Therapy Benefits You Don't Want to Miss
A common EMDR therapy benefit is more accessible memories and an active dream state result. EMDR may seem to awaken and invigorate your brain in a general sense, stimulating access to vividly detailed recall and REM sleep. Participants also experience a host of other EMDR therapy benefits that change their thinking, goals, relationships, and even the dreams they dream at night.
What is EMDR Psychotherapy and How is It Helpful?
Is EMDR Psychotherapy right for you? Not everyone embraces the idea of traditional talk therapy. Especially when depression drains them. Or traumatic memories make life unpredictable. Or the pain of abuse is too terrible to talk about freely. Suffering emotional or psychological pain can make long talk sessions seem unbearable.
How do PTSD mindfulness skills help with recovery?
Healing Complex PTSD in Women: Post Traumatic Growth
Studies show that women are consistently more likely to meet criteria for complex PTSD. Additionally, experts find that women experience more severe symptoms than men. This is true even when men experienced the same traumatic events. Why? Scientists find that women think and process trauma differently and more acutely.
Choosing a PTSD Psychotherapist: Your 5 Step Guide to “Professional Help”
For PTSD sufferers, therapy is an excellent first step. You need a supportive person, expertly trained and dedicated to seeing you through effective treatment and lasting recovery. Where trauma seemed to have robbed you of so much, you now have the opportunity to seek out a relationship with a PTSD psychotherapist that is both trustworthy and therapeutic.
