Somehow, you got this far in life. Despite the pent-up energy bottled up inside, you’ve achieved things in life that didn’t seem possible. Maybe you found the career you love, graduated college, are living your dreams, or finally found your soulmate. But there’s this issue that never goes away. The emotions and energy inside you […]
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Did you know The National Children’s Alliance highlights that young “children were the most vulnerable” when discussing being the targets of trauma? In fact, they indicate that more than 25% of 2 year-olds experience maltreatment. Why is this important? This blog post will discuss the attachment challenges after early childhood trauma and how therapy can
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The news today feels as if it is constantly filled with trauma, stress, and pain. In the United States, school shootings are becoming all too common. On 12.16.24, a shooter targeted the Abundant Life Christian School located in Madison, Wisconsin. These types of events have an almost disbelief of terror that spreads and seeps into
Community Trauma and Healing: From an Online EMDR Therapist in Wisconsin Read More »
The stress and trauma men can experience throughout life can leave internal scars on the body and mind. Over time, if not healed, this can disrupt relationships in men’s lives, create mood swings, insomnia challenges, and lead to isolation. This blog post will discuss how men can overcome stress and trauma with SIBAM from somatic
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Both the body and nervous system have evolved over the millennia to create adaptive responses to stress. One of these mechanisms is emotional detachment in the face of stress or trauma. A Science Direct article by Kristin Klimley, Vincent Van Hasselt, and Ashley Stripling indicates that “over 80% of first responders report experiencing trauma while
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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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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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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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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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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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