From Freeze to Flow: Strategies for Recognizing and Managing Career-Related Shutdown Responses
A Trauma-Informed Guide to Overcoming Workplace Freeze Responses Many of us who have experienced trauma find ourselves struggling with shutdown responses at work, often without realizing what’s happening. These moments of freeze aren’t character flaws or professional...
When Trauma Looks Like Love: Breaking the Cycle and the Bond
Trauma rarely announces itself It slips in through watchful eyes, a flinch when voices rise, and the quiet choke of not feeling safe in ordinary love. What starts as a survival tactic hardens into a filter, tinting every argument, text message, and missed call. The...
Big Feelings? How Kids (and Adults) Can Learn to Handle Them
Do you ever notice that big feelings – like frustration, anxiety, or sadness – can feel overwhelming, confusing, or even unmanageable? This month, I want to share a wonderful resource that helps kids (and anyone young at heart) learn how to notice, name,...
Too Self-Aware for My Own Good
The Narrator in Your Own Meltdown Do you ever catch yourself mid-meltdown, calmly narrating your own emotional chaos like a nature documentary? “Here we observe the adult survivor in his natural habitat, spiraling over the way a text message is worded…” That’s the...