Why Yoga and Meditation Could Make Trauma Symptoms Worse

Why Yoga and Meditation Could Make Trauma Symptoms Worse

You are feeling stressed and anxious so you try to “do the right thing” and go to a Yoga class or do Mindfulness meditation, but it just seems to make you feel worse and more anxious. If you’ve had this experience, please know there is nothing wrong with you.  It...
Body-Centered Therapy for Trauma: What Is It?

Body-Centered Therapy for Trauma: What Is It?

Body-centered therapy can help you reconnect with your body and emotions, offering a pathway to regain balance and restore a sense of well-being. Following periods of high stress or trauma, your nervous system goes into overdrive, which can prevent you from being in...
Trauma and How to Handle Panic Attacks

Trauma and How to Handle Panic Attacks

It’s all about the nervous system. Our nervous system is designed to help us survive and keep us alive. That is its whole purpose.    It has certain built in mechanisms to respond to danger and it triggers the release of...
4 Breath-Work Exercises to Support Your Nervous System

4 Breath-Work Exercises to Support Your Nervous System

Trauma is physiological. It is a highly activated incomplete biological response (fight, flight, freeze). Anxiety signals that your nervous system is lacking safety and we constrict. This impacts our nervous system, muscles and tissues.  Constriction in the body...