What is a Dis-Order? Through a trauma-informed lens.
I have been considering the word ‘dis-order’ when referring to anxiety. Anxiety makes sense when our nervous system has gone into fight or flight…
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EMDR Therapy for Distressing Memories and Events
We all have memories that get stuck. I had one of walking down the aisle on my wedding day. It wasn’t a big T…
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The Top-Down Approach to Healing
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The Trauma-Informed Perspective
Being ‘trauma informed’ is essentially the skill of pausing before making a judgement and thinking why this behaviour might be happening, given someone’s personal…
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Your Trauma Is Valid
These three things will vary depending on the individual. We all start with a different nervous system. We are all in differing social-economic environments,…
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Personality Disorders Don’t Emerge Out Of Thin Air – In More Cases Than Not, There Is A Complex Trauma History.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) has “come to be understood as a posttraumatic adaptation to severe childhood abuse and attachment trauma” (Courtoise, 2004). As children…
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CBT for Trauma
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is the most highly recommended psychotherapeutic intervention for people with PTSD (American Psychiatric Association). CBT works in a top-down way…
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Yoga and Trauma
For me yoga is a form of self-care. When I am on the yoga mat, I slow down. I re-connect to my body and…
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Trauma Informed Perspective
Being ‘trauma informed’ is being called for in more and more spaces as society recognises the prevalence of PTSD. In any given year 8…
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Post Traumatic GROWTH (PTG)
Have you had a traumatic experience, which was painful and hard, and at the same time been aware of your inner self growing, or…
