This May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to increase awareness and reduce the stigma surrounding the mental health issues that so many of us experience. However, there is one mental health buzzword that has already been receiving media attention over the last few decades: trauma. References to trauma can be found everywhere from […]
Read MoreAccelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) categorizes emotions into two groups: core emotions and inhibitory emotions. According to this approach, humans are hard-wired to experience core emotions, such as fear, anger, sadness, disgust, joy, and excitement, which are triggered in the middle part of the brain and are not subject to our conscious control. Core emotions […]
Read MoreEmotional trauma, by its simplest definition, is an extremely stressful or disturbing event or event(s). There are two types however and one of them is usually overlooked. We need to reach into the grammatical style guide (shout out to my journalist son for the clarification) to begin to differentiate Trauma vs trauma. Trauma with a […]
Read MoreOur understanding of relationships and how to participate in them is founded on the patterns we grew up with and how we were taught to interact with others. Sign up below for your FREE guide to relationships.