What Is Trauma?
Between the years 1995 to 1997, Kaiser Permanente and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted research labeled the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, or simply “ACEs”. In this Read More …
Category: Trauma
How Childhood Trauma Affects Adult Relationships
Childhood experiences are crucial to our emotional development. Our parents, who are our primary attachment figures, play an important role in how we experience the world because they lay the Read More …
The Roles Neuroplasticity and EMDR Play in Healing From Childhood Trauma
It was once thought that our brain was fixed and unchanging once we enter adulthood. Research throughout the last few decades has determined that in fact, our brain has the Read More …
How To Get Through a Sucky Divorce and Find Your New Beginning
I’ll say it again: divorce sucks. It’s probably one of the most devastating tragedies anyone can go through. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard newly married couples say Read More …
Understanding Emotional Trauma and Its Influence On Our Core Beliefs
If you’re like me, at one point you probably have fallen into the trap of thinking specifically about war veterans or sexual abuse survivors when you hear the word Read More …
Taking a Stand Against Bullying
I was going over some of my old articles today and came across one I wrote a little over a year ago about “Frenemies”, toxic relationships that we have in Read More …
Recovering From Trauma
At the beginning of my therapy career, my passion was working with families. The family system is like a well-oiled machine; every person in the unit has a role and Read More …