Healing from betrayal trauma, while living with your partner, is possible. Infidelity is common, and brings your entire relationship into question. Processing all this takes time and raises many issues. Should you stay? Can you rebuild trust? How long will this take? These are all important things to think and talk about. Healing from betrayal…
It can be surprising, and even shocking, when repressed childhood trauma shows up when you are an adult. Unfortunately, the past does not always stay in the past. When you have childhood trauma, you can get used to normalizing unhealthy behavior. Therefore, you may not even realize your family was dysfunctional. As an adult, you…
Chronic procrastination is often misunderstood. People will misinterpret and simplify procrastination as you just being lazy. This can cause you to feel chronic shame and guilt for not being more productive and on top of things. This leads to low self esteem. Let’s consider chronic procrastination as a trauma response. Trauma from your past, or…
We should not underestimate the trauma of being an adult child of divorce. Divorce is the death of a marriage, therefore, healing the trauma of adult children inevitably involves grief. As an adult child of divorce, you probably don’t even realize you are grieving. This type of grief can often be invisible and unacknowledged. You…
Being cheated on can be so emotionally devastating that is causes infidelity trauma. Infidelity trauma is similar to having post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The stress, anxiety and intense emotions make it difficult to function. You might be feeling panicky, like your heart is pounding, your brain feels fuzzy and you are crying all the…
Moral injury is a specific type of trauma that arises if you face a situation that deeply violates and damages your conscience or core values. When you have a vision of the world as a fair and good place and something you’ve done or witnessed destroys that vision. If your moral compass has been turned…
When a narcissist is mad, it can be terrifying. Narcissistic rage plays a prominent role when you’re dealing with a narcissist. There are many narcissistic rage triggers, making you feel like you are walking on eggshells. You never know when they will have a rage spiral. Narcissistic Rage As A Manipulation A narcissist will use…
What is EMDR? It is an approach that has been extensively researched. It’s been proven effective to relieve many types of psychological stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy helps you heal from anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, addictions, trauma and PTSD. EMDR originated in the late 1980’s as a means of treating PTSD…
To begin the healing process, first you have to be able to identify the types of narcissism. This can be harder than you think. Not all narcissists are alike. Some are easy to spot, as they are very grandiose, full of themselves, and attention seeking. However, some types of narcissism appear on the outside to…
If you are recovering from narcissistic abuse, it can take a huge toll on you. Narcissistic abuse undermines your mental well-being. It even destroys your very sense of self, of who you are. It can be damaging to your core, but recovery is possible. A narcissist will throw others under the bus with no guilt…