The Flash Technique is used to help process difficult memories during Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). This technique has been developed within the last 6 years by Dr. Phillip Manfield, PhD, in order to ease processing of traumatic memories. When Do We Use The Flash Technique? You may be having intrusive thoughts that you…
You’re not just imagining chemo brain fog! We now know that cancer and its treatment causes changes in your brain. It’s common for you to have a cloudy mind, chemo brain, during and after treatment. Often, your fogginess will fade shortly after chemo ends. But, for many, it lingers for several months to several years or…
Neurofeedback helps with trauma. If you are suffering with the serious long-term consequences of trauma, neurofeedback can help. Trauma can impact your relationships, social life, work life and your emotions. Unresolved trauma can lead to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD can impact your mind and body, but especially the brain. Neurofeedback Helps With Trauma…
Can emotional abuse cause mental illness? Yes it can and let’s start by asking what is emotional abuse. Also, what is mental health and mental illness? Emotional abuse usually starts slowly. Then, before you even know it, you’re hooked into someone who is treating you badly. Over a long period of time, it gets worse and…
It is important to be able to tell the difference between healthy dependency vs codependency. Healthy dependency is called interdependency and helps you be your best self. Codependency happens when you are taking on most of the responsibility for the relationship, losing yourself in the process. Interdependency occurs when both people in a relationship give…
What is gaslighting? Are you being gaslighted? Gaslighting is most common in romantic relationships, but it can happen in any kind of relationship where there is a power imbalance. A power imbalance can exist between boss and employee, teacher and student, parent and child, and between husband and wife. You might feel dependent on the…
When you’re flirting with a potential love interest, you’re dazzled by why relationships are wonderful, not cautioned by why relationships are hard. So what if floating on air and talking all night aren’t sustainable behaviors? Your brain is taking a nice long bubble bath in love hormones, and you couldn’t get out if you tried. By…
If you have trauma in your background, you may find that your relationships are adversely affected. How trauma affects relationships is related to your unique experience, but there are also some typical responses. Trauma can take many forms. It can come from a more obvious event such as an earthquake, accident, war or even major…
Depression causes you to have low mood, leaving you irritable and feeling persistently hopeless and helpless. What depression does to your body is something that has been researched and linked to many physical conditions such as heart disease, inflammation, and chronic pain. You might not realize that depression takes a toll on your body, especially…
Happiness. It’s a feeling, an art and even a science. And relationships are often mentioned when happiness is discussed. Since relationships are complex, how relationships affect happiness is a study in itself. There’s no question that love can make you feel good, great, over-the-moon. But you can’t assume that happiness is dependent on love, or…