Awareness Insights

Understanding and Managing Dad Stress: Tips for a Balanced Life

Parenting is a rewarding journey filled with memorable moments and immense joy. However, it also comes with its fair share of challenges, especially for dads who juggle multiple roles and responsibilities. Dad stress, a term increasingly recognized, refers to the unique pressures and anxieties fathers face in their parenting and professional lives. Understanding and managing […]

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Healing from a Narcissistic Parent

Attachment Trauma, Awareness, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Individual Therapy, Somatic Experiencing Therapy

Growing up with a narcissistic parent can leave lasting emotional scars. Narcissistic parents may often prioritize themselves over those of their children and neglect their children’s mental, emotional, and physical needs. Healing from a narcissistic parental relationship is a journey that requires understanding, self-compassion, and patience. That’s because the brain development (neural wiring) that occurs

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Overcoming Survivor’s Guilt

Awareness, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Somatic Experiencing, Trauma

Survivor’s guilt is a profound and complex emotional human response. It often occurs after individuals have survived a traumatic event that others did not. It is important to note that overcoming survivor’s guilt is possible. Healing from survivor’s guilt may not happen quickly, but it can be done. In the military and emergency services professions,

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How to Regulate Dissociation

Awareness, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Nervous System Regulation, Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Experiencing, Wellness

Dissociation is one of the many different responses someone may have during and/or after a traumatic or other overwhelming event. But, how to regulate dissociation is a more complex question to answer as it involves how the nervous system perceives threats and the different states of the nervous system. We will discuss how the nervous

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Managing Survivor’s Guilt: Life After Trauma

Awareness, Evidence-based therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Recovery, Survivor's Guilt, Trauma, Vicarious Trauma, Wellness

This blog post will explore ‘what is survivor’s guilt’, the challenges survivor’s guilt creates in one’s life, and how to heal from survivor’s guilt afterward. Survivor’s guilt may follow a traumatic experience that takes the life of someone you know or severely harms someone who was in the vicinity or area that you were in.

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Finding Peace After the Storm: A Guide to Healing Chronic Trauma

Awareness, Evidence-based therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Mental Health, Recovery, Somatic Experiencing, Wellness

Trauma can occur at any moment or in any experience in life. This blog post will explore the situations that may create chronic trauma, the effects of chronic traumatization on life, and what and how to heal from chronic traumatization. A side note – even if traumatic experiences have occurred years or decades in the

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Navigate Mental Health Resources

Awareness, Individual Counseling, Mental Health Resources, Recovery, Relationship Counseling, Wellness

Facing mental health symptoms and their associated challenges can be intimidating and daunting. It can also be a powerless endeavor as one recognizes that mental health symptoms rarely come and go but more so come and stay throughout someone’s life. The hard part of living with mental health symptoms is learning how to navigate the

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How Does Somatic Experiencing Therapy Work?

Awareness, Evidence-based therapy, Individual Therapy, Mental Health, Recovery, Somatic Experiencing, Trauma, Wellness

Somatic Experiencing (SE) therapy was designed by Dr. Peter Levine to assist with healing from various forms of trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and other disruptions within the mind-body connection. SE is considered a bottom-up form of therapy meaning that SE helps people heal from the body, nervous system, and then up the brain direction versus

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Exploring Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Addiction, Anxiety, Awareness, Depression, Stress, Wellness

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another form of cognitive behavioral therapy that emphasizes increasing a person’s functionality despite mental health symptoms, chronic pain, of life stress. But what are the benefits of ACT therapy? How can ACT help you in your life? ACT therapy has been shown to alleviate many different challenges in an

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What’s the Difference Between Grounding and Mindfulness Skills?

Awareness, Grounding Skills, Mindfulness Skills, Recovery, Wellness

Two skills individual therapists and mental health counselors talk a lot about are grounding skills and mindfulness skills. But what’s the difference between grounding and mindfulness skills? Are they the same or different? Does one skill work better than the other? When to use which skill? In this blog post, we’ll explore these topics. Purpose

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