They’re holding the space steady while you’re doing the internal work of reprocessing a traumatic experience within your mind and body.
Healthy Distraction Techniques that Can Manage Anxiety
How to Heal Attachment Trauma and Build Healthier Relationships
The Relationship Between ADHD and PTSD Explained
Most people view ADHD and PTSD as two separate issues with completely different symptoms. One is a neurodevelopmental condition, while the other is a response to overwhelming, traumatic experiences. Dealing with ADHD and PTSD concurrently isn’t rare. Trauma exposure is more common among people with ADHD.
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How Does EMDR Help Process Depression?
How Adaptive Coping Strategies Can Help Manage Depression
What Should You Think About During EMDR?
If you are about to start your EMDR journey, or have been struggling through your first couple of sessions, you may be wondering what you’re supposed to be thinking about. The beauty of EMDR is that there is no right or wrong thing to experience during your sessions. Forcing anything wouldn’t be productive. Your nervous system sets a pace that is comfortable and sustainable.
How Does EMDR Work in the Brain?
EMDR incorporates side-to-side eye movements, tapping, or auditory stimuli to activate both sides of your brain, mimicking REM sleep. After trauma, your brain holds onto a distressing memory. Bilateral stimulation supports your brain in doing what it could not do during the trauma. Once you can process it and place it in the right context, the emotional charge it has been carrying will dissipate.
How the Body Stores Trauma—and How Somatic Therapy Releases It
How Somatic Therapy Regulates the Nervous System
Somatic therapy helps you regulate by allowing your body to complete the initial protective response that it started, but never finished. Your body likely triggered a fight-or-flight response. But, unable to take the steps needed to carry the process to its end, all that energy remained trapped inside. You’ll be given a safe space to release stored energy and teach your nervous system new responses that are more helpful to you.
How Long Does the Journey Through Trauma Therapy Last?
Understanding and Healing from Complex Relational Trauma
Uncovering the Surprising Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder can interfere with your concentration and decision-making abilities. When anxiety triggers your nervous system and sends you into fight-or-flight mode, it limits your ability to think clearly. You may also notice, unusual forgetfulness, mental exhaustion, even when you have no reason to be tired, struggling to make simple decisions and difficulty completing routine tasks.
Understanding the Hidden Signs of Dissociative PTSD
How to Talk About Your ADHD So Friends and Family Actually Get It
What Is Past Life Regression Therapy and How Can It Help You?
What to Expect After EMDR
Does Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Really Work?
Exposure therapy does, in fact, work for treating anxiety disorders. Research has consistently shown positive results with exposure therapy when applied to: anxiety disorders, OCD, panic disorders, phobias, PTSD. For those who suffer from social anxiety specifically, gradual exposure is a highly effective way to reduce symptoms.
How Past Life Regression Therapy Can Treat Trauma
Past life regression therapy is an approach that can help unlock deeply ingrained patterns of unresolved trauma. This approach uses guided hypnosis to access memories or past experiences that may be influencing the present moment. Whether you believe these memories are actual past lives or a subconscious representation, it doesn’t change the healing process.
