The Secret To Finding Your Best Therapist
The Secret To Finding Your Best Therapist A therapist should be chosen as carefully and mindfully as a spouse. This is especially so when seeking a therapist to treat chronic childhood trauma. In years...
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Why People Pleasing is Such a Dangerous Endeavor
People pleasing is a dangerous endeavor. The more vigorously it is pursued the more our True Self gets effaced, until all that, seemingly, remains is a puppet whose strings are constantly being pulled by...
Hypervigilance–Why Your Life is a Many Triggered Thing
The limbic system controls feelings and emotional reactions in addition to categorizing and storing memories. It releases specific neurochemicals based on its interpretation of your survival needs at the moment. Your safety requirements, according...
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...
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...
