Trauma Recovery
Is it Anxiety or PTSD?
Lots of people can relate to being anxious, and wonder if they have anxiety or PTSD. Sometimes the feelings are mild: slightly elevated heart rate or blood pressure, some discomfort in social settings, or too many thoughts to get back to sleep easily. Other times,...
read moreTraumatic Grief: Trauma, Grief, or Both?
Traumatic grief. Traumatic Grief. Reading the two words together signals that something terrible happened. They highlight shock and suffering. Something happened to you suddenly, or was stripped away from you tragically. Perhaps someone even betrayed you unexpectedly....
read more7 Ways PTSD Affects Your Relationship and How to Restore Your Connection
PTSD is hard on relationships. And it won’t just go away if you realize how much you love each other. Or ease its assault of isolation, flashbacks, nightmares, sense of failure, or waves of sadness and sudden anger on its own. PTSD breaks connections. The trusting,...
read moreFinding Relief for Trauma (Hint: There Are Logical Reasons for Your Symptoms)
What if you were experiencing excruciating trauma symptoms (like a break) to your leg, and it didn’t hold you up when you put weight on it? And what if your painful symptoms kept you from getting around in your daily life: sleeping through the night, getting dressed...
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