Showing Yourself Acceptance and Compassion
Accepting oneself with all your flaws is part of being mentally healthy. However, often survivors are their own worst critics picking themselves apart and holding themselves back from experiencing life to the fullest. This article will focus on self-compassion and how...
How to Choose the Right Kind of Friends
Survivors have been damaged by relationships and relationships are the pathway toward healing. What a terrible statement. The thing that did us so much harm is the thing we must have in order to get well. This is the dilemma for a survivor of trauma. In addition,...
What is Trauma-Informed Yoga?
“No intervention that takes power away from the survivor can possibly foster her recovery, no matter how much it appears to be in her immediate best interest.” Judith Herman There may be a time when you reach out for the support and care you deserve. It could be by...
Are You Hyper-Aware of Changing Moods?
Have you ever noticed that you are hyper-aware of other people’s changing moods? This awareness could be a trauma response. It could be that you haven’t always exactly known what you were experiencing, but you recognize that you can regularly detect when...How to be Trauma-Informed Given Today’s Important Issues?
One of the hard things we talked about in the last article, strategies for coping with the hard parts of life, was watching the news or dealing with current events. There is certainly a lot going on in the world — and at times, feeling powerless, as it feels more...
Do You Compulsively Count or Perform Mathematical Operations in Your Head?
Trigger Warning: This can cause a trauma response. When I was little and helpless to escape my abusive environment, my brain formed a rather amazing coping strategy to distract me from the fear and pain. It is a form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) called...