A mistake often made by those who suffer from anxiety and post traumatic experiences is utilizing emotional numbing as a primary mechanism to cope with their mental distress. Emotional numbing is defined as “process of shutting out feelings and can be experienced...

People with trauma experiences spend too much time blaming and shaming themselves for human stress responses that are physiologically beyond their control, yet they believe they should be able to control them. When I was a young EMT working on an ambulance, I...

What is Trauma? Psychology Today states, “Trauma is a person’s emotional response to a distressing experience. Few people can go through life without encountering some kind of trauma. Unlike ordinary hardships, traumatic events tend to be sudden and unpredictable,...

Ever lay in bed at night unable to fall asleep because your mind was racing thinking about all the things you must do and don’t know how you are going to find the time, energy, or resources to do them?  Your heart starts racing, you break out into a sweat and the...