Trauma & Abuse

How to Use Your Triggers for Growth

How to Use Your Triggers for Growth

Our triggers are our body's way of signaling that there's an important thing that we need to heal from. We need to pay attention to our triggers instead of taking our triggers as signals that there's something wrong with us. Learn more about how to use your triggers as growth jumpstarters.

Nervous System Health: Stuck On & Stuck Off

Nervous System Health: Stuck On & Stuck Off

When traumatic events throw healthy nervous systems off track, we can get into “stuck on” and “stuck off” modes, making it hard to balance between relaxed and alert. When we’re stuck in these modes, we fall back to our habitual reactive patterns. This post can help you determine if your nervous system is stuck “on” or “off.”

Connecting with Safe People

Connecting with Safe People

You may crave healthy relationships, but you might not know just what that looks like. Learn more about the traits of safe vs. unsafe people so that you can learn to distinguish who to draw closer to from who to stay away from and also to grow to become a safe person yourself.

Life Timeline: A Bird's-Eye View of Your Life

Life Timeline: A Bird's-Eye View of Your Life

As a follow-up exercise to the Top 10 Best/Worst Memories List, the Life Timeline helps you visually see what larger periods of your life were like and recognize what kinds of needs were and weren’t met.

How Does Brainspotting Work?

How Does Brainspotting Work?

Brainspotting (BSP) is a way to jumpstart our bodies’ natural ability to process experiences reactive emotional experiences like anxiety, depression, overwhelm, and shame, heal from trauma, and enhance significant relationships. Learn how Brainspotting works, and what benefit Brainspotting therapy may offer you so that you can feel grounded and present to engage life to the fullest.

What is Brainspotting?

What is Brainspotting?

Brainspotting is a brain-based processing method similar to EMDR that channels the body’s natural ability to heal itself from overwhelming or stressful experiences that generate symptoms like anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, and overreactivity. It does so by finding specific eye positions (Brainspots) linked to unprocessed stress experiences stored in the brain and letting the body “detox”.

How to Make a Genogram

How to Make a Genogram

A genogram is an important tool for self-awareness, personal growth, and relationship development. Create your map that shows where you’re from so that you can decide what kind of relationships you want to create going forward.