Trauma

Making Friends with Your Inner Critic

Making Friends with Your Inner Critic

We all have one. You know, that voice in your head that is quick to judge all the things that you’re doing wrong. It’s the voice of “not doing enough,” “not enough” and “too much.”  The one that says you sounded like an idiot at that work meeting, or that you’re...

Coping With the Unexpected

Coping With the Unexpected

My vacation in Yosemite was going along smoothly, hardly a hitch in any of my travel plans, and despite a rainy day in the forecast, only a little drizzle fell from the sky. I had hiked over 45 miles in four days, taken in some breathtakingly gorgeous views, and was...

Is Your Eating Disorder Helping You?

Is Your Eating Disorder Helping You?

By Hannah Guy, LCSW I know what you’re thinking… my eating disorder(ED) hasn’t helped me at all. Actually, it’s ruined my life. What a ridiculous question! To be fair, your eating disorder definitely hasn’t made life any easier. However, your eating disorder didn’t...

Is EMDR Therapy Right For Me?

Is EMDR Therapy Right For Me?

Perhaps you’ve heard of EMDR therapy or someone has recommended it but you’re not sure if it’s right for you. You’d like to learn more about this therapy whose acronym you keep mixing up with EDM (not the same thing, I promise), and how it might help you. EMDR stands...

Understanding and Healing Relationship Trauma

Understanding and Healing Relationship Trauma

Human beings are wired for connection and safety within relationships. When these needs are dismissed, ignored or we experience physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse within the very relationships that are supposed to bring us a sense of security and joy, our whole...

Yoga for PTSD 

Yoga for PTSD 

I’ll never forget my first yoga class. I was a stressed out and harried grad student and decided to go for it despite considering myself highly uncoordinated and inflexible – the class was offered as a part of my school’s gym membership, so what did I have to...

Healing Trauma: The Mind Body Connection

Healing Trauma: The Mind Body Connection

Our bodies are deeply intelligent and geared for survival. In moments of crisis, this can help us to run, fight back, freeze or even check out completely. These are strategies of survival that are very adaptive when there is a real threat present. They allow us to...

What is Trauma?

What is Trauma?

What comes to mind when you hear the word “trauma?” Until fairly recently, most people thought of trauma as the exception rather than the rule. Trauma was thought to be tied to terrible events that happen to folks unlucky enough to experience them.  In the past...