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Toxic Stress, ACEs, and Polyvagal Theory
Stress is a normal part of life that no one can fully escape. However, when stress becomes toxic, it can affect our lives in drastic fashions that may change our life’s outcome. Adverse childhood...
Why You Can’t be in a Rush to Heal from Trauma.
Often clients will ask how long healing from trauma will take, and they will try to dive right into their story in the first session. But healing takes time and intentional healing within safe and secure spaces.
Shame, Blame, and Polyvagal Theory
How many times have we heard of people who were raped or otherwise violated being accused in their attacker's trial of not fighting or running away? The survivor, instead of receiving sympathy...
Poly What? Understanding Polyvagal Theory
There are many theories about childhood trauma and how it affects the bodies and minds of children and how these experiences shape adults. One of the most interesting of all of them is what is...
Overlooked, Revived, and Climbing.
A series of 3 poems, shared by guest writer Kaylene, on her realizations through various stages of healing. OVERLOOKED As I look up at the clouds, I give a sigh and start to wonder. Where I’m...
Eating Disorders are Not Just for Women
Society has stereotypically viewed eating disorders as only affecting teenage girls and women. However, one in three people who form an eating disorder (ED) is boys or men. This article will...
The Research on the Causes of Eating Disorders.
In piece two of the series on eating disorders, we have already explored how dopamine and serotonin play vital roles in influencing eating disorders. In this article, we’re going to take a closer...
EMDR and Trauma: What You Need To Know
In order for EMDR to work effectively, a person needs a solid, safe foundation from which to process the trauma. Their trauma history determines how quickly they are able to achieve this necessary foundation.
The Health Consequences of Eating Disorders.
Eating disorders (EDs) are insidiously destroying some lives and greatly restricting others. However, eating in secret and feeling guilt are not the only consequences of having an eating...
Depression and Anxiety, Running on Empty.
Depression and anxiety are a poor mixture for keeping the engine going. So how is it that so many of us keep on going, day after day, without outwardly batting an eyelid at the multitudes of...
Eating Disorders, Who Gets Them and What are They?
The term eating disorders conjures in the minds of many pictures of boy crazy teenagers who want to slim down for a prom dress or something only women have. However, the reality of EDs is much,...
What is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
“Complex PTSD comes in response to chronic traumatization over the course of months or, more often, years. This can include emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuses, domestic violence, living in a war zone, being held captive, human trafficking, and other organized rings of abuse, and more. While there are exceptional circumstances where adults develop C-PTSD, it is most often seen in those whose trauma occurred in childhood”.
