Why Perimenopause Can Feel Harder with a Complex Trauma History From a trauma therapist’s lens: what the research suggests, what it does not prove, and how to support your nervous system through this transition. Many women arrive in therapy during perimenopause...
Have you ever noticed your mind racing or felt suddenly overwhelmed without knowing why? Often, our bodies register emotions long before our brains can find the words to describe them. This is where interoception comes in, which is your brain’s vital ability to...
Avez-vous déjà remarqué que votre esprit s’emballe ou que vous vous sentez soudainement dépassé sans trop savoir pourquoi ? Parfois, notre corps ressent les choses bien avant que notre cerveau ne mette des mots dessus. C’est ici qu’intervient...
The Silent Epidemic: ADHD, Shame, and How Trauma Therapy Helps Heal the Inner Critic For many adults with ADHD, the hardest part isn’t the executive dysfunction — the forgetfulness, the difficulty focusing, the procrastination. It is the crushing weight of shame...
Nature is nurturing. Brain imaging research shows that a one-hour walk in nature decreases activity in the amygdala — the brain region central to threat detection, fear, and the stress responses that often stay elevated after trauma (Sudimac et al., 2022). Trauma work...
Why Talk Therapy May Have Felt Like It Didn’t Work for You If you’ve spent months — or years — in therapy and walked away feeling articulate about your problems but not actually different, this post is for you. It’s one of the most common things I...
How Attachment Shows Up in Adult Relationships Hazan and Shaver (1987) were the first to apply Bowlby’s framework systematically to adult romantic relationships. Their research demonstrated that the same patterns observed in infants: secure, anxious, avoidant...
When most people hear the word “trauma,” they picture catastrophic events — a car accident, an assault, a natural disaster. These are what clinicians call Big-T traumas: single, clearly identifiable events that overwhelm the nervous system and leave...
A breakup can feel like one of the most disorienting experiences a person goes through. Not just sad, physically painful. The kind of pain that sits in the chest, disrupts sleep, makes it hard to eat, and leaves a person feeling like they have lost something far...
You have probably heard people describe themselves as “anxiously attached” or “avoidant.” These terms have entered mainstream culture through social media, dating advice, and pop psychology. But beneath the labels lies a robust body of research...
