Identifying Your Patterns Of Disassociation You are not lazy because you procrastinate. Sometimes we shut down and this can occur in a variety of situations.…
Healing From Trauma by Activating Your Capacity For Expansion and Contraction
Healing from trauma isn’t as much about being able to relax, it’s more about being able to tolerate a wide range of emotional, physical, mental…
Calming Box Beginning to Shift Out of Helplessness: A Fusion of Science
In our developmental years there was no way to escape and as adults there is still a perception by our body there is nowhere to escape. This level of perception is called neuroception and it detects risk beneath your conscious awareness when faced with a threat.Your body neurocept, the same danger you experienced in your developmental years and had to react similarly. Going to frozen, disconnected, and shut down because you have no power. This is common and trauma neural nets of remembering the past as happening now, especially if something related to the original event is sensed in the moment, understanding that feelings of helplessness are often part of the dissociative state.
Calming Box Calming the Fight or Flight Response to Trauma
Is there anxiety and depression that creeps in no matter how hard you try? Do you feel unsafe in your body? Does your mind race…
Shifting the Cycle of Post-Traumatic Stress Distortion: Small Steps to Reclaim Your Life
Are you finding yourself withdrawing from social events? Feeling overwhelmed and wanting to hide? A traumatic exposure represents threats to our safety and well-being. Whether…
Calming Box: Identifying TRAPS (Trigger Response Avoidance Pattern)
PTSD symptoms often get triggered when you’re trying to make changes in your life. These triggered responses prompt you to return to old patterns of…
Choose Your Own Friend Destiny And Learn from Your Experience
One of the most valuable social skills we can develop is the ability to choose our own friends. While we don’t always have control over…
Strategies to survive trauma.
Calming Box is giving credit to the Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma by Julie Brown Yau, phd You learned survival strategies in frightening situations. Including…
Psychology Has Failed Trauma: Where We’ve Gone Wrong and What Needs to Change
Psychology, as a field, has made strides in understanding the human mind, but when it comes to trauma, it may have fallen short. Despite decades…
The Emergence of the False Self
When faced with overwhelming experiences such as emotional neglect, abuse, or loss our human mind seeks ways to adapt and cope. For children, who were…