There are so many responses to trauma, remember YOUR response is NORMAL for YOU. You may experience any combination of these symptoms in response to any trauma, large or small. The symptoms will usually subside within a few weeks or …
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Causes of Psychological Trauma
You might be surprised to know there are different kinds of trauma. Our ability to recover from a trauma depends partly on the KIND of trauma we have experienced. When we have experienced a shock trauma psychological distress in the …
How Trauma Affects the Brain
Trauma affects the brain, especially the prefrontal cortex, amygdala and hippocampus. Ongoing trauma is associated with “lasting change in these brain areas” (Bremmer, 2006). When there is a potential threat, the amygdala sends an instant message to the hippocampus, activating …
Re-Traumatisation
This event is retraumatising on several counts. Firstly, she experiences the same trauma her mother experienced, having her child stolen. Secondly, she re-lives her own trauma of being stolen as a child. She may then slip into further depression and …
Have you ever wondered if you would have marched with Martin Luther King?
Have you ever wondered if you would have marched with Martin Luther King in the American Civil Right Movement? I would like to think I would have marched. Now is the time to march. HOW you march it is up …
Intergenerational Trauma
Intergenerational trauma is real. Trauma is passed down through family lines. When a member of a family experiences a trauma, such as being raised by an alcoholic, experiencing slavery or the Holocaust, these traumas have biological and behavioural impacts on …
Can Energetic Healing Help Treat Trauma?
There are so many different forms of energetic healing that it is difficult to put them all in one basket called ‘energetic healing’. Can some of the different forms of energy healing help with trauma resolution – in my experience …
Healing Trauma
Trauma comes from the Greek word for wound, relating to physical injury (1) . It wasn’t until the late 19th century that the word trauma became associated with psychological rather than physical harm. Austrian psychologist, Sigmund Freud was one of …