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) happen below the level of your conscious awareness, so in that moment you don’t...
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...
What is Trauma?

What is Trauma?

If you regularly struggle with stress, anxiety, and overwhelm, there may be an underlying issue from your past that’s causing it. Trauma may be impacting you more than you realise. What is Trauma? Trauma has been described as a highly activated, incomplete...
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...