Repetitive and Relentless: Gaining control of Those Intrusive Thoughts
Do your thoughts feel stuck on repeat? Whether it's replaying a conversation, doubting your actions, or fearing the worst, intrusive or “sticky” thoughts can quietly hijack your mental space, leaving you overwhelmed, disconnected, and exhausted.
Betrayal Safety-Seeking Behaviors: How Trauma Shapes Our Need for Protection
Betrayal trauma doesn’t just break trust — it rewires the nervous system. Even after the lies stop, the body remains on high alert, seeking safety in ways that can feel confusing or even “crazy”.
When Trauma Cuts You Off from Yourself
To live as a whole and integrated person, we’re called to braid together all parts of our being: physical, emotional, mental, creative, spiritual, and more.
Breaking the Cycle: Understanding and Healing from Intergenerational Trauma
Intergenerational transmission is the passing down of characteristics, behaviors, and traits from parents to children. This can include how we interact with others, the mental health struggles we face, and even aspects of our personality. Just like poor eyesight can be inherited, so can certain behavioral patterns.
Trauma Healing: Harnessing EMDR Therapy
Trauma, an intricate web of experiences, leaves profound imprints on the psyche. Enter EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy, a beacon of hope amidst the shadows. Its essence lies in unraveling the tangled threads of trauma, gently guiding individuals toward healing.
Healing Strategies for Betrayal Trauma Survivors
Healing Strategies for Betrayal Trauma Survivors - Betrayal trauma can leave deep emotional scars, affecting individuals in profound ways. Navigating the path to healing can involve a combination of therapeutic approaches.
Healing as Partners: Supporting Betrayal Trauma Recovery
Healing as Partners: Supporting Betrayal Trauma Recovery - Betrayal trauma can shatter the very foundation of trust in a relationship, leaving partners grappling with profound emotional wounds.
Supporting Your Partner Through Betrayal Trauma
Betrayal trauma can be devastating for individuals and relationships alike. If your partner has experienced betrayal, whether through infidelity, dishonesty, or breach of trust.
Betrayal Trauma & What You Need to Heal From It
Beyond anger lies a pervasive sense of confusion and disorientation. Betrayal shakes the very foundations of one's beliefs about themselves, their relationships, and the world around them. Despite the challenges, healing from betrayal trauma is possible.
Holistic Approaches to Healing from Betrayal Trauma
Betrayal trauma can be deeply distressing, affecting individuals on emotional, psychological, and even physical levels. Individuals seeking healing from betrayal trauma can explore holistic approaches that encompass mind, body, and spirit. This article covers key strategies and resources available to support this healing journey.
Healing from Betrayal Trauma: Therapy Options
Betrayal trauma can be deeply distressing, leaving individuals grappling with profound emotional wounds. Here are therapy options healing from Betrayal Trauma.
Emotional Healing : Transforming Pain into Strength
Emotional healing is the profound process of transforming pain into strength, fostering resilience amidst life's trials.
Healing from Past Trauma in Couples Therapy
Healing from Past Trauma-The journey of love is often painted as a picturesque landscape, filled with tender moments, shared dreams, and unwavering support. However, beneath..
Unlock Healing: Releasing Trauma from the Body
The body doesn’t discriminate between a physical trauma and an emotional trauma. It will hold onto the pain regardless.
When Self-Soothing Turns to Self-Sabotaging
Have you ever thought, “Why can't I control myself?” What was once a way to calm your pain and emotions is no longer working.
12 Layers of Betrayal Trauma
Infidelity within a relationship causes a ripple effect that impacts multiple facets of the betrayed partner's life and lived experiences. It impacts our mind, body, and spirit. This multi-layered betrayal results in a type of trauma that is referred to as betrayal trauma.
Befriending Your Nervous System: How to Help Yourself Regulate
Dysregulation occurs in varying levels of intensity and for many different reasons. When you can track and map your nervous system, you become more able to intervene with your own body and emotions.
The Aftermath of Deception: A Roadmap for Partners Overcoming Betrayal Trauma
The trauma of betrayal is earth-shattering, penetrating nearly every corner of life. Although the journey to betrayal trauma recovery is long and painful, many betrayed partners walk through these 5 steps, and with the support of their therapeutic team, overcome debilitating pain and reconnect with an even stronger self.
When Trauma Manifests as Addiction
If trauma is left unhealed, unprocessed, and even ignored, the pain finds a way to manifest. In fact, our trauma wounding has the potential to become re-enacted through patterns of addiction, including sex addiction and process addiction. Fortunately, there is hope for healing.
Your Physical Reactions Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory
It can be difficult to make sense of our bodies and their reactions. The way we feel does not always align with how we think we should feel, and we oftentimes we end up stuck in discomfort. This is not an uncommon experience. Thankfully, we can make sense of these reactions through Polyvagal Theory, and work our way back towards a restful state.