When you have been through trauma, it has a real impact on your brain. Sometimes you feel it intensely and often. Overtimes, you may try to go about your life and sense something more subtle is hindering you. But the encouraging thing? Science tells us that your brain needn’t stay stuck in a traumatized state. Research make it clear that your brain, even after the worst experiences can rebound.
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.
If negativity via self-talk is your tendency, you may be suffering a slow slide back into depression. Using hurtful language inside your own head fosters a poor relationship with yourself. Depressive thinking then develops from your own self-mistreatment. Fortunately, your recovering mind is not powerless.
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.
To move from self-improvement to self-actualization requires support. Positive Psychotherapy can help with all of the aforementioned strategies and more. Check in with yourself. Tune in to your needs, talents, and eccentricities. Be you as much as possible and acknowledge when you aren’t being you so that you can examine why.
EMDR works by supporting the brain’s ability to shift its perspective and strengthen its own positive networks. Thanks to such neuroplasticity (the brain’s capacity to develop entirely new neural pathways) the research indicates that distress can be overcome. You can alleviate what bothers you quickly and effectively. In other words, you can adapt and thrive. You can trust the evidence.
Trauma treatment recovery can be so tough because we fear being so broken by our painful experience that we can’t move on. Yet, this fear actually gets in our way. Anxiety about falling apart can become a preoccupation. It can impede our recovery as we rush to be “okay” attempting to skip crucial steps to wholeness and wellbeing. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...
Anxiety disorder coping is best achieved by managing and responding to stressors with immediate, intentional strategies that will keep you inside your “window of tolerance. “ Let’s define our terms and explore how staying in the window of tolerance can bring you more comfort and peace of mind. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...
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?
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...
Somatic therapy for chronic pain proves there’s more than one way to heal. That concept is at the heart of somatic therapy. And when it comes to healing from chronic pain, the relief this kind of therapy brings is keenly unique and transformational. You and your therapist will get you back into your body by facing the fear or resistance to movement that is limiting your life.
