How Trauma Impacts Your Brain: Understanding the Left and Right Hemisphere Disconnect

How Trauma Impacts Your Brain: Understanding the Left and Right Hemisphere Disconnect

Traumatic events can change how your brain works, leaving you feeling broken and disconnected as though your mind and body are no longer in sync. How can you tell when this is happening to you? Have you ever had a traumatic experience, but when you talk about it, it...

Alone for Christmas: The Link Between Tribal Belonging, Trauma Responses, and Practical Coping Strategies

The holiday season is often portrayed as a time of joyful celebration and togetherness. But for many, it can be a painful reminder of loneliness and the holidays can be an isolating time, especially if you’re spending Christmas day alone. This isn’t just a matter of...
Managing Big Life Changes at Christmas: Coping with Divorce, Family Estrangement, or Bereavement

Managing Big Life Changes at Christmas: Coping with Divorce, Family Estrangement, or Bereavement

Managing Big Life Changes at Christmas: Coping with Divorce, Family Estrangement, or Bereavement The festive season is often portrayed as a time of joy and togetherness, but for many, it can be a time of deep emotional stress. Particularly when big changes like...
Understanding Trauma: How the Freeze Response Affects Healing and Recovery

Understanding Trauma: How the Freeze Response Affects Healing and Recovery

Understanding Trauma: How the Freeze Response Affects Healing and Recovery When your survival brain interprets your experience as too much; when you can’t communicate or take action, this is known as the freeze state. Your survival responses (fight/flight/freeze)...
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...
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...