30
Sep
Techniques
22
Jul
Feeling Different
Because what happened to us was wrong, it changed everything and we stopped feeling normal, or what had felt normal to us.
24
May
The Four F’s
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that can develop in people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.
26
Apr
Dissociation
Although it's widely known as a process of disconnecting from one's thoughts and feelings I think Dissociation is way bigger than that. Depending on how your life has been it may...
23
Mar
Hypervigilance
Now there’s a word! When I think of how much I needed this in the first sixteen years of my life; it blows my mind. I am not alone, hypervigilence like...
23
Feb
Clarity
Clarity takes me straight to an image of standing in the sparkling blue ocean and seeing my feet very clearly all the way to the bottom. Sometimes clarity is unavailable to...
25
Nov
Triggers
Just for the sake of clarity, triggers are responses caused by a particular action or situation, like the war in Afghanistan. Symptoms can include, panic attacks, abject fear, even feeling...
24
Oct
Courage
Courage comes in many forms and is as unique to us as our thumbprints. All of us need to find courage some of the time, and some of us need to...
24
Sep
Beginnings
Love or hate them they're part of life. Rumour has it we think about new beginnings the most in springtime, probably due to cute little lambs frolicking amidst the gorgeous...
27
Jun
Boundaries
Whether we know it or not, we have boundaries with every single person we interact with. We decide who we let into our inner circle, outer circle or not at...
16
Apr
Balance
While watching a show on Netflix where a woman appeared to be gliding across a tight wire high up off the ground, I realised two things: I don’t like heights...
07
Mar
Acceptance
I was reading Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth the other day, and one line in particular stood out; ‘Treat the situation you are in as if you had chosen it’....