Why Addressing Trauma is Paramount I can’t stress this enough: Trauma is the Pandemic. Trauma is the gateway to addiction. Trauma is what perpetuates violence, poverty, wars, and ongoing abuse on a micro and macro level. Trauma is often the cause of many of the chronic health issues that plague our societies. Trauma as a Collective Manifestation Trauma and its patterns of reenactment are the cause of the ongoing lies, deceits, struggles of power, destabilization of countries, and mistrust between human beings. That being is said, Trauma is hardly addressed at all. The severity and long-term ef ..read more

Here are all the new articles and videos of this year 2023. I hope you will take your time to read, listen, or reread these resources. Here are the posts: Complex PTSD & The Power of Rebuilding Boundaries Crush It With These 4 Trauma Support Insights Trauma Informed Care – 7 Simple Tips to Success How Your Complex PTSD Freeze Response Screws You and Protects You at The Same Time Emotional Coping & PTSD: Learn 2 Strategies for Recovery Here are the videos: You Thoughts Aren't just Your Thoughts PTSD Insomnia & The Desire for Peaceful Sleep Why Meditation Isn’t Always a Good Th ..read more

When you are down and depressed, sometimes you need to kick yourself in the butt and start moving your energy as an emotional coping strategy. That moving your energy potentially gets you unstuck. It gets you out of stagnancy and a defeat mindset. At other times, you will have to stay with the depression and listen into it. That listening into it can help you see why your energy is invested into shutdown.  Understanding Emotional Coping: How Shutdown and Depression Can Be Safety Mechanisms Shutdown helps you to cope with excessive anger, sadness, or anxiety. If you would constantly be w ..read more

The Complex PTSD Freeze Response You dissociate to protect the still functional parts of yourself. When you disconnect, your energy becomes more present in the upper body and more disconnected from the lower body. It is usually the diaphragm that keeps a lid on the unresolved emotions that remain in the belly area.  You dissociate to protect the still functional parts of yourself. Alongside this disconnection, you will likely default to some form of substance or behavioral addiction to cope with your excessive stress. Fragmentation & The Complex PTSD Freeze Response This is a good th ..read more

Working Through PTSD Insomnia Not being able to sleep, fall asleep, stay asleep, or have a restful sleep are very common symptoms when dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress. Your fight-flight mechanism and accompanying hormones are likely to be on overdrive; fatiguing your adrenals and affecting your overall health. Furthermore, when you suffer, you naturally attempt to get away from it and try to overcome it. Your Fight-Flight Mechanism Is Rallied UP When you are triggered and activated, your fight-flight mechanism is rallied up. Your adrenaline gets going and it might take hours or even days ..read more

Have Healthy Trauma Informed Care Routines for Sleeping, Eating, and Work Creating healthy habits will help you to be more productive and focused. Now, this is easier said than done when you are dealing with cPTSD, which makes it even more important that you install these routines. Let’s start: Have your meals at regular times and make sure to eat a sufficient portion. Make the effort to prepare at least two, preferably three meals a day. Preparing meals will keep you away from snacking out of stress/comfort, will force you to eat healthier, and will keep your blood sugar—and hence your stre ..read more

Trauma Support: Trauma Is What Happens Inside of You “Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you, as a result of what happens to you.” — Dr. Gabor Maté A very true statement. What does it imply, though? Some go through a traumatic event and come out unharmed without the long-lasting effects of PTSD; others suffer immensely. Trauma Support & How Being (re)Traumatized Depends On These 4 Things: How you go into a traumatic event. The duration and severity of the traumatic event. The support or lack of trauma support you receive during or after the event. If you w ..read more

Complex PTSD & Boundaries Setting To recover and heal, you need to be committed and dedicated. You will need to persist and be patient, which often only comes when you have hit rock bottom; when you have realized you only have two options: continue to self-destruct and die, or work towards recovery. Working towards recovery takes time and energy. Money is part of energy. If you have few financial resources, you pay with time and energy. Once you become less anxious and/or depressed, you get more access to anger. If your anger keeps overwhelming you, your anger will either turn inward as s ..read more

Trauma-Informed Addiction Treatment Addiction is a complex issue that is often misunderstood. It is not just a personal failing or weakness, but rather a symptom of deeper emotional issues, particularly post-traumatic stress. Trauma can leave emotional residue that fuels addiction, causing individuals to turn to substances or behaviors as a means of numbing or dissociating from the pain. Trauma-informed approaches to addiction treatment recognizes this connection and addresses the underlying emotional causes in order to achieve lasting recovery. Addiction as A Coping Mechanism for Trauma But ..read more

PTSD and Weight Gain: Let's Find Out More When your stress hormones rise and stay chronically high, your metabolism changes from glucose oxidation to fatty acid oxidation. Glucose oxidation, in which your cells burn sugar and oxygen for energy, is your default metabolism to provide you with energy. When your liver runs out of sugar/glucose reserves, your metabolism changes to fatty acid oxidation. In short, your cells start to burn fat and oxygen to provide you with energy. Once your glucose stores are restored, you go back again to your default metabolism of glucose oxidation. Fatty acid ox ..read more