How Mindfulness Works to Regulate Emotion in Your Brain
Have you ever felt too depressed to solve a problem? It may be that your brain is not able to regulate your emotions. Mindfulness training may be the solution. A University of Toronto study published in Emotion looked… Read More
Domestic Violence: You Did Not See It Coming
This article is the first in a series, which focus on domestic violence. In it, I describe some of the common characteristics of an abuser’s behavior and why you may not see the abuse coming. Colette (not her… Read More
Mindfulness Meditation Benefits Employees
Can mindfulness meditation ease the stress of multitasking? According to a study published in the May 2012 issue of Graphics Interface, David Levy, Ph.D. and other researchers at the University of Washington say the answer is: yes. The… Read More
Six Free Tools to Kickstart Your Personal Development
Times are tough and it is often expensive to participate in therapy, seminars, or other helpful programs. Here are some great, free, ways to take steps on your journey to personal development. First is journaling; a spiral notebook… Read More
Five Clinical Ideas to Bring Implicit Encoding to Explicit Integration
Attachment patterns that are developed in childhood have some particular challenges. By their nature, these memories are formed before the “mind” so they are encoded in the body rather than the brain. Here are five ways to approach… Read More
8 Keys to Brain-Body Balance
Healmyptsd.com presents an excerpt from Robert Scaer’s new book 8 Keys to Brain-Body Balance. This particular section looks at the freeze response of animals. If fight or flight will not work, freezing in place is a common survival… Read More
Are You In Contact With the Amazing You?
Trauma can hijack your identity. This article contains a link to a radio show on the topic of reconnecting to the “amazing you” that has been usurped by your traumatic experience. The article also describes a simple meditation… Read More
Introducing the Communal Response to Trauma (CRT) Index
Laura K. Kerr, Ph.D., has come up with the Communal Response to Trauma Index. In the tradition of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Index or the nation of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index or the American Human… Read More
Ten Tips for Understanding Someone With PTSD
The very nature of post traumatic stress disorder makes it difficult for the sufferer to communicate with others. It becomes necessary to learn about the effects of trauma and how to get help for our loved ones in… Read More
Primer on Attachment Styles
This article outlines the three basic “Insecure Attachment” patterns that adults exhibit. They are based on the different types of parenting to which we were exposed as children. The first is the “Avoidant” pattern which relates to an extreme… Read More
