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Being “Trauma-Informed” in a World Full of Pain and Chaos
This approach involves sensitivity to trauma’s effects, creating a safe environment, and tailoring treatment to consider the individual’s unique experiences and needs related to their trauma...
How to Cope with Eating Through The Holidays – Part 3 of 3
We wrap up our series with the wonderful Kristen Kancler in which she shares with us how love, safety, and belonging are key to making the changes we want to make....
Surviving Your Family of Origin At Christmas Time
Most survivors have families of origin that were responsible for their forming complex post-traumatic stress disorder through committing chronic child abuse. So, the holidays, especially...
Coping with Holiday Stress — Families that Put the Fun in Dysfunction
’Tis the time of year for crackling fires, amazing smells coming out of the kitchen, laughter, and family togetherness. Well, at least, that’s what the made-for-TV movies want us to think. For a...
The Awkwardness of New Beginnings
During our lifetime, we experience many new beginnings. New beginnings can feel awkward and unsettling, whether it is a new school, job, program, team, or membership program. For the trauma...
How to Cope With Eating Through the Holidays – Part 2 of 3
We continue our series with the wonderful Kristen Kancler in which she shares with us how we can be SAFE around food. --------- Navigating Trigger Situations Thanksgiving, the most notorious day...
Treating Complex PTSD (Parts 3 & 4)
PART III Addressing the Unique Features of CPTSD Any treatment for cPTSD must take these features into account. It needs to engage with the person holistically, and allow discussion of traumatic...
A Change of Scenery to Heal the Body and the Mind
***TRIGGER ALERT*** The content in the article describes child abuse and may be triggering for some readers. Child abuse and trauma survivors often feel misunderstood and marginalized in...
How to Cope with Eating Through The Holidays – Part 1 of 3
It's that time of year when we face a whirlwind of holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa --- oy!These holidays can demand a lot of our energy, time, and people points....
CPTSD & Compulsive Shopping Disorder During the Holiday Season
It’s that time of year when people around the United States overspend, trying to make their Christmas perfect. Folks run up their credit cards, wrap up their finds, and offer them as gifts....
Honoring Your Felt Sense of Inner Knowing
Trusting our healing intelligence is aligned with releasing the conditioning that clouds the inner quality of listening and truth-knowing. When the mind and body are in harmony, this can come as...
Trauma-Informed Talent Planning
Recently, I participated in a talent planning exercise with my Executive and peers at work, which turned out to be trauma-informed. I have never participated in or even read about trauma-informed...
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”.
