8 Ways to Embrace Being a Highly Sensitive Person

8 Ways to Embrace Being a Highly Sensitive Person

As a highly sensitive person (HSP) chances are you are tired of having to explain yourself to others and advocate for the needs you have that others do not understand. You may be thinking that something is wrong with you and wish that you weren’t so sensitive. It’s easy to imagine that being more “like everyone else” would be a lot better. Please don’t waste any more of your time and energy wishing for the impossible. HSP is a trait people are born with, not a disorder; a gift, not a curse. Below are some things you can do to better manage and enjoy your life as a highly sensitive person.

Why are Autism Diagnoses on the Rise?

Why are Autism Diagnoses on the Rise?

Girls, queer and trans kids were often passed over because they didn’t exhibit these stereotypical behaviors, while BIPOC students who weren’t passed over were likely treated with disciplinary measures rather than exploring the why behind their behaviors. Systemic racism, sexism, trans- and homophobia all show up in the public school system. Autistic people in these groups likely learned to mask from a young age to avoid being further targeted for bullying, discrimination, and harassment.

5 Ways IFS Therapy Treats Trauma

5 Ways IFS Therapy Treats Trauma

Do you believe that we are all made of different parts? After all, not everyone is all bad or all good. Human beings have a combination of helpful and harmful amounts of themselves. Unfortunately, trauma has a way of bringing out the worst in us. INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS) is a type of therapy that helps you discover who you are and bring all of these parts together. The three main parts include: Exiles, Managers and Firefighters.

4 Ways Trauma Bonding Negatively Impacts Your Relationships

4 Ways Trauma Bonding Negatively Impacts Your Relationships

Unfortunately, when two people have a traumatic history in a relationship, it can create something called “trauma bonding.” It can even happen in your relationships with family members or friends. It’s easy for abusers to shift the perspective of their victims, often using gaslighting techniques. They can get you to change the way you view what happened, or what continues to happen. Instead of recognizing that you’re the victim, they can end up making you feel like you’re the one to blame.

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So You Want to Find a Therapist: Tips For Selecting The Right Fit

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So You Want to Find a Therapist: Tips For Selecting The Right Fit

Finding and choosing a therapist can be an exciting proposition. Therapy is also a great place to learn about our boundaries, our needs, and requests. Remember, your therapist is working for and with you, not you for them. If you have particular goals, needs, desires, or anything important to you you’d like for a therapist to know, the consultation is a great place to share.

Letting Go of the Past: Finding Healing from Relationship Trauma

Letting Go of the Past: Finding Healing from Relationship Trauma

The emotional scars that you are carrying from relationship trauma can be hard to heal from. If you have been betrayed once, you are also expecting future betrayals. You may run away from relationships with people who care about you for fear of getting hurt again. But it is important to know that you can heal no matter how long it takes. That not everyone in the world is bad for you.

5 Tips to Help Your Partner Navigate Depression

5 Tips to Help Your Partner Navigate Depression

It can be hard to watch someone you love battle depression. Ignoring the depression signs your partner presents will not make them go away. This is especially true if your partner engages in self-harm or suicide attempts. Even though you cannot cure your partner’s depression, there is always something you can do to help.

What is Enmeshment? 5 Telltale Signs

What is Enmeshment? 5 Telltale Signs

If you feel like people in your life are excessively involved in your life, this is enmeshment. Whether this is your romantic partner or a family member, enmeshment is when people are involved in your activities and personal things to an excessive degree. If you do not know if your partner is being excessive, it helps to know what the behavior patterns entail.

Here are the five telltale signs of enmeshment.

Anxiety’s Effects on Relationships

Anxiety’s Effects on Relationships

Relationship anxiety is when you experience more times of excessive worrying about the relationship than actually enjoying it. You could be really scared that the relationship will end as soon as it starts. Out of fear, you may even go so far as to end the relationship. To avoid doing something you will regret, here is how anxiety can affect your relationship.

Betrayal Trauma: What it is and How to Heal

Betrayal Trauma: What it is and How to Heal

Betrayal trauma is the emotional impact of your experience after your trust or well-being is violated. It is most often experienced in attachment relationships, like caregivers and children, or in romantic partnerships. You have to continue to rely on the betrayer for support, care, shelter, or other basic needs. These experiences of betrayal can be so traumatic that you feel you will never want to trust anyone again.

Why Are Eating Disorders Competitive

Why Are Eating Disorders Competitive

Eating disorders can be very competitive. Hearing that another person has lost weight can fuel your desire to lose more than them. You may figure that as long as you are the weight you want, you are winning the game. It is possible you may have the personality of an overachiever or a perfectionist. If so, you never want to put in little effort.

How to Cope with Long Haul COVID Anxiety and Fear

How to Cope with Long Haul COVID Anxiety and Fear

When you’re struggling with long-haul COVID anxiety and fear, it’s understandable that you might get wrapped up in thoughts about how and when you’ll recover fully. You may wonder if a return to your old life and healthy state is possible. You don't have to navigate these fears alone. Your body and mind work in concert. While constant tension, unease, and worry can wear you down, there are steps you can take to ease your anxiety.

How to Cope with Long Haul COVID Depression and Brain Fog

How to Cope with Long Haul COVID Depression and Brain Fog

Take Heart that COVID-19 is new but depression and brain fog are not. It may help you to consider that, though Covid is novel, there is a well of knowledge that can be applied to your current challenges. Depression and brain fog were linked long before the pandemic.

Boulder's Mass Shooting & the Marshall Wildfire: Coping with PTSD

Boulder's Mass Shooting & the Marshall Wildfire: Coping with PTSD

Recovering from your PTSD is not a solitary journey. If you are tempted to compare your recovery (or will to recover) to that of your neighbors or other witnesses, don't. That just compounds your distress with guilt and shame. Your losses are real and there's a very real and productive way forward. PTSD treatment is made for times like these. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...

Eating Disorders Treatment for Children

Eating Disorders Treatment for Children

Eating disorder treatment for children is most effective when delivered early as possible. Prompt care is for best recovery and a return to growth and maturation.

Traditionally, eating disorder interventions were modified versions of teenage models. However, pediatric treatment for eating disorders should not imitate adolescent programming.

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How EMDR Helps Relieve Trauma Stored the Body

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How EMDR Helps Relieve Trauma Stored the Body

Trauma can get stuck in your nervous system in a multisensory way. You hear, see, and feel things when you recall the event or become triggered in some way. Some of the memory is real mixed with things you imagine. Regardless, your body holds it all in your nervous system in an unfinished, unresolved state.

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