10 Evidence-Based Strategies for Healing from Childhood Trauma as an Adult: Healing from childhood trauma as an adult can be a complex journey, but it’s a journey worth embarking on for your mental and emotional well-being. With advancements in trauma research and therapy techniques, there are now effective tools available to help individuals navigate thisContinue reading “How to Heal From Childhood Trauma”
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Overcoming Childhood Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse is a silent vampire that can haunt its victims long into adulthood. Unlike physical abuse, its scars are often hidden, etched into the very fabric of one’s emotional well-being. For those who have experienced childhood emotional abuse, the road to healing can be arduous, but it is a journey worth taking. This blogContinue reading “Overcoming Childhood Emotional Abuse”
How can I embrace my inner child?
In the hustle and bustle of adult life, it’s easy to lose touch with the carefree, imaginative spirit of our inner child. However, reconnecting with this playful side can be a powerful and transformative experience on our journey to emotional well-being. The Importance of Embracing Your Inner Child Practical Steps for Embracing Your Inner ChildContinue reading “How can I embrace my inner child?”
What is best treatment for mental health therapy?
I receive this question quite often from incoming clients or people that are just curious about mental health treatment and therapy. We tend to be pretty goal oriented and solution focused in this country so of course when we think about healing, we want to know about the best treatment possible. There are two mainContinue reading “What is best treatment for mental health therapy?”
Why can’t I remember my trauma?
It’s extremely common to not remember part or all of the trauma that you’ve experienced. This can happen in instances of childhood abuse, childhood neglect, childhood sexual abuse, adult domestic violence, or rape and sexual assault in adulthood. As a trauma therapist, many of my clients have gaslit or discredited themselves over the years becauseContinue reading “Why can’t I remember my trauma?”
What is inner child healing?
As a therapist and trauma survivor myself, one of my all-time favorite quotes is “be the person you need it when you were younger”. This is the essence of inner child healing. Our childhood and teenage years are the most important years developmentally. This includes social emotional development, and also actual brain development. The experiencesContinue reading “What is inner child healing?”
How does sexual assault affect us
Sexual assault can be one of the most horrifying things that can happen to a human being. It’s important to remember that it’s never the survivors fault, and all the fault belongs with the perpetrator who wanted to do the sexual assault. Unfortunately, millions of young girls and boys are sexually assaulted every year. ThereContinue reading “How does sexual assault affect us”
What is narcissistic love bombing?
You may have heard of love bombing associated with narcissistic or abusive relationships, and wonder what does that mean? Love bombing is one of the really important signs to notice when trying to spot an unhealthy start to a relationship. Love bombing happens at the beginning of a relationship and it’s distinctly different than normalContinue reading “What is narcissistic love bombing?”
How long does grief last?
Losing someone we love whether they died, or a relationship ended can be some of the most difficult pain our heart can go through. There are many factors that determine the depth and the length of our grief. Some of these factors include the depth of the relationship, the closure before the ending, our ownContinue reading “How long does grief last?”
What is sexual assault?
The public knowledge and recognition of sexual assault has increased over the years, especially due to movements like the no more and me too movement. There has been so much gaslighting and victim-blaming in our culture that it has made it hard for survivors of sexual assault to really recognize and admit what happened toContinue reading “What is sexual assault?”
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