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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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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The polyvagal theory highlights how the nervous system responds to threat – fight, flight, freeze, and sometimes fawning/appeasement. Polyvagal theory details that we have different states to our nervous system. The three main states in polyvagal theory are: A Sympathetic State – where we fight/flight in response to stress/trauma A Ventral Vagal State – where
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Bullying can occur at any point throughout our life. However, it is very impactful when we are children, adolescents, and teens. During these timeframes, our brains are changing on both a neural level and well as structurally. Rates of bullying in the U.S are around 1 in 5 children. Click here to reference more data
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Traumatic experiences are omnipresent in our world. One does not have to look far to see the effects of trauma on their lives or in their communities. As most have seen, the recent violence in the Israel and Gaza region of the world adds to these traumatic experiences. An article by Reuters highlights the level
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The world is filled with stressors from the war in Ukraine to severe weather, and wildfires. Not to mention interest rates and the economy. All of these single or combined stressors can influence our mood and destabilize our nervous system. Not only does current events cause us current stress, these situations can also activate past
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Domestic violence can occur at any point throughout a relationship. Domestic Violence can occur male to female, female to male, or partner to partner depending on the relationship. The Women Against Abuse website lists various forms of domestic violence that exist in our world. What is The Domestic Abuse Cycle? Psych Central details that there
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What does the recent fire in Maui, Hawaii, and the war in Ukraine, have in common? Both of these situations carry various degrees of trauma. What is Trauma? Trauma is self-defined from person-to-person and can include either little ‘t’ or big ‘T’ traumas or both – which these situations all contain. How Does Trauma Occur?
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Implode or explode? Most of us have heard of the Titan submarine that imploded near the Titanic wreckage. The submarine was crushed under the weight of the water at that depth Also Known As (AKA) ‘an implosion.’ Subsequently, those in the submarine tragically lost their lives. Humans, and manmade structures, can only handle so much
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How does childhood stress impact trauma? Stressors permeate all aspects of life. Factors that influence one’s ability to manage stress include: An individual’s upbring Childhood experiences Genetics/heredity Other life experiences Early life experiences influence how one views stressors, tolerates stressors, and recovers from these stressors. As a person experiences stressors, especially in early childhood, their
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