Does it Feel Like Your Feelings are the Enemy?
All our life we have been running away from our feelings and now here I am asking you to run toward them. Here’s a newsflash, feelings are neither good nor bad; they are just...
Overcoming Childhood Trauma as an Adult Blog
Emotions and the Middle Way
If you are wrestling with post childhood trauma symptoms in adulthood, right now you don’t even know how good your relationships have the potential to be. Most likely, you currently cannot accurately evaluate the...
Healing Trauma Through Creative Expression
Art is magical and the creating of it takes you to an enchanting realm – the right side of your brain. Even better is that when you are thoroughly immersed in the right side...
Attachment–Disorganized By Chronic Childhood Trauma
In the beginning, there was attachment. In the 1960s a developmental psychologist named Mary Ainsworth conducted a study with 106 babies and their parents called The Strange Situation experiment. Her findings exposed two general...
Tricking Childhood Trauma–The Happy Memories Exercise
We are no longer victims. Although we most certainly suffered through childhood trauma we also had many positive experiences, sometimes even with those who caused us the most pain. We can get so...
Surviving Holidays With a Highly Dysfunctional Family
Holidays are so explosive for highly dysfunctional families because everyone within earshot has a hypervigilant limbic system and if anything can possibly be taken the wrong way – it will be. Rarely does anyone...
The Body as a Sacred Space
How you regard and treat your body has everything to do with self-love. Your body is a gift and you must accept that you have a responsibility to treat it as a sacred space....
Childhood Trauma Drives Us to Distraction
As children, in order to survive experiences of chronic childhood trauma, we dissociated, to whatever degree necessary, from our bodies. Without the help of emotionally healthy adults we could not discern a way...
Are These Your Childhood Trauma Symptoms?
As long as those with post childhood trauma symptoms in adulthood continue to be diagnosed with labels that only partially address their life experience and perspective, or worse, are given completely erroneous diagnoses, they will...
The Monster Under the Bed
Despite a hypervigilant limbic system (the primitive part of our brain) which seems to take us to the verge of the abyss regularly, we have been told that those of us with post childhood...
