15 Jul, 24

Building Our Resilience: It’s About Feeling Connected

2024-07-19T21:42:19+00:00July 15, 2024|Trauma|

As a trauma therapist I’ve often worked with people on developing their resilience in dealing with traumatic events, relationships, and upbringings. In our Western society, we often think of resilience as something we need to build on our own so that we can be more independent. The truth is we are all much more interdependent than we may believe, and it is through this interdependence that we can heal. When people are depressed, they commonly complain [...]

14 Nov, 23

Breaking the Cycle of Trauma

2023-11-27T15:44:53+00:00November 14, 2023|Trauma|

What is there to say when there is so much disagreement, anger, and fury among us— when people on all sides think they’re right; no, they know they’re right. Trauma breeds more trauma, creating hate, fear, otherness and enemies out of neighbors, friends, and sometimes even family members. It creates brittleness and inflexibility. It tunes out our senses and makes it hard for us to clearly think. Since the brutal events of October 7th visited upon [...]

17 Oct, 23

Trauma Affects Us All

2023-11-27T15:17:07+00:00October 17, 2023|Trauma|

We all learn that life is unpredictable, and that there has always been trauma in this world, but it usually happens in waves- a hurricane here, a car accident there. These are nothing to write off, the nervous system responds to all traumas, but these days, it feels like the whole world is on fire. We all need to consider the effects of barbarous acts including war on each of us as human beings in thinking [...]

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