Many are unclear about what trauma is. Trauma is subjective, meaning anything can traumatize a person if the event(s) impact the victim's nervous system and emotional and psychological well-being and are perceived as traumatic. Trauma effects all people without discrimination of age, race, sex, ethnicity, religion, or nationality. Approximately 70% of [...]
Welcome to the year 2020, where traditional life is out, and change is forced. You are not alone in your anxiety, depression, or mental health needs. - 1 in 5 American adults have a mental illness - 10.3% of Americans have serious suicidal thoughts in 2020, a 450,000 person [...]
Who are you? Identity after Trauma Life takes each of us through natural significant developmental stages of transitions (infancy, toddler, childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, retirement, etc.). Each of these transitional stages requires us to develop a new part of our identity. This can be complicated by a plethora of decisions [...]
The Traumatized Brain: Why Trauma Causes Triggers Life happens to all of us. Throughout scripture we see where we are guaranteed to face trials, tribulations, and persecutions. Knowing this only serves to normalize our experiences, it does not prepare us for unexpected life experiences and it does not prevent [...]
The experience of childhood abuse is far reaching. The United States is ranked as one of the leading industrialized nations for childhood abuse with nearly 700,000 children having reported abuse each year. Abuse can occur in many forms including physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, and neglect. Those who experience childhood abuse [...]
No parents are perfect, but sometimes parents are painfully imperfect. Sometimes parents directly instill fear, neglect, lovelessness, worthlessness, rejection, self-hate, abandonment, and anger that children live with. When these hurting children grow up to be adults they struggle. The challenges we face in childhood become the struggles of our adulthood. [...]
Domestic Violence. When you read these words, what comes to your mind? Television portrayals? Hollywood reenactments? …media has downplayed, glamorized and even glorified domestic violence ultimately creating a dangerous misunderstanding of the deadly reality of domestic abuse. Most people are not aware of the array of severity that classifies as [...]