5 Relationships That Help You Grow in Resilience
So let’s talk about the 5 types of people you will want to include in your Circle of Safety if you are going to continue down this healing journey and teach your mind and body that you are safe, and that the true you can finally come out from under all the baggage of trauma.
Top 3 Books for Healing Childhood Trauma
Today we are going to talk about my favorite 3 books that I recommend to people who are healing from childhood trauma and growing up in a dysfunctional family.
How to Heal Childhood Trauma: The 4 Stages
Have you ever wondered if Therapy is right for you at this point in your healing process? Today we are going to talk about the 4 stages of healing complex trauma and how you will know if you need to be in therapy right now.
Codependency or a Trauma Response?
Trauma is the consequence of a painful event, while codependency is the way that people attempt to avoid painful events and traumatic symptoms. In short, codependency is a way that people try to protect themselves from their traumatic symptoms.
5 Tips for Identifying an Emotionally Safe Person
It is so important to surround ourselves with emotionally safe people especially when we are healing from abandonment or rejection trauma. These relationships allow our minds and bodies to recalibrate to the fact that it is finally safe to heal–we don’t have to be in survival mode any longer.
5 Tips for Navigating Trauma in Your Relationship
There is a difference between a couple that self-destructs and a couple that grows closer amidst their trauma. So today we're going to talk about five tips that are going to help you and your partner have a healing experience in your relationship amidst the trauma.
Emotionally Immature Parents and CPTSD
The lack of emotional attunement and presence from your parent is traumatic, and carries with us into our relationships. Let's explore the 4 types of emotionally immature parents and its impact on us as adults.
The Role of Self-Awareness in Healing Complex Trauma
I am going to share with you the essential role of self-awareness in healing complex trauma. This is the starting point that unlocks the healing process.
How Childhood Healing Fantasies Impact Our Relationships
A healing fantasy is an idea we take refuge in to help us hold onto hope and survive as children. These comforting thoughts help us feel comfort and hope during our formative years, but sabotage our adult relationships.
Why We Choose Unhealthy Relationships
Our brains are incredibly adaptive, but when they've had to adapt to trauma and abuse for too long, they begin to normalize the dysfunction. Let's dive into why our brains normalize dysfunction and how we can rewire our brains to find and maintain healthy relationships.
7 Red Flags That Childhood Trauma is Sabotaging Your Relationship
Until we can work on our own childhood trauma, no amount of self-help books or communication skills are going to help us feel safe and secure in our relationships. I am going to share with you 7 red flags that might be telling you that your childhood trauma is showing up in your relationship.
Why We Gaslight Ourselves
When we gaslight ourselves, we minimize or dismiss our own experiences, feelings, and needs, and may even blame ourselves for the dysfunction we experienced in our family. This can lead to self-doubt, self-blame, and a lack of trust in our own judgment.
Building Healthy Relationships after a Dysfunctional Childhood
Growing up in a dysfunctional family deeply impacts our ability to form healthy relationships as an adult. As a child, we learned to survive our dysfunctional family by developing skills that no longer serve us in our relationships with healthy people.