Tag: Trauma Recovery
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The Polyvagal Theory: Understanding Our Threat Responses
Read Time: Est 10-12 Minutes Trauma Responses: The Ancient Predilection to Survive Trauma affects people in a wide variety of ways, with responses ranging across a spectrum from fight and flight to freeze and shutdown. Dr. Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory sheds light on the biological systems that drive these observable behaviors, revealing how our autonomic… read more
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Creating Your Personal Grounding Plan: A Tool for Navigating Trauma Recovery (+ Free PDF)
Read Time: Est 5 Minutes Why Grounding Plans Are a Lifeline Have you ever felt like the world is spinning too fast, leaving you struggling to catch your breath? In those moments, a grounding plan can be a lifeline. It’s more than just a list of techniques; it’s a personalized tool that helps you regain… read more
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Grieving the Death of the Person I Was
Content Warning: This piece explores themes of trauma, grief, and self-acceptance, including references to suicide, emotional numbness, and self-doubt. If you’re in a vulnerable place, please read with care and take breaks if needed. You are not alone. 💙 Hey Guys. Is that my voice I hear echoing out in the ether? whatever. I wanted… read more
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The Window of Tolerance: How Trauma Lives in the Body
Read Time: Est 6 Minutes When the body perceives a threat, it initiates a physiological and hormonal reaction commonly known as the Fight or Flight response. This survival mechanism, ingrained in us through evolution, helps us fight back, flee, or freeze when we face danger or harm. However, after staying in fight-or-flight mode for too… read more
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Searching for Meaning When it Looks Like There is None
I used to think that everything happened for a reason, and I’ve always gone through life looking for the good in bad situations. This was no different—I guess I was just searching for any kind of indication that there was some sort of cosmic meaning or lesson to this terrible thing that I had gone… read more
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