Category: Trauma
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What Does a Trauma Survivor Need?
In September 2021, I created blog posts about the common causes of traumatization and the common effects of traumatization. I encourage you to read those posts in conjunction with today’s post. The needs of the trauma survivor may seem vast, but they can be categorized into four areas. I find these categories helpful because they
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Growing Toward Relational Health
We are all designed to function relationally. When I think of relational health, I think of the fruit of the Spirit described in Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” All the aspects of the fruit of
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Trauma’s Effects on Intimate Relationships
When I work with an individual who is healing from the effects of past trauma, she often struggles in her current relationships as well. She is grappling with the ways in which suffering diminishes her capacity to enter into trusting connection with others, and her most difficult interactions may be occurring with her intimate partner.
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A Tool for Diminishing Intrusive Thoughts
Symptoms of intrusion are one of the markers of posttraumatic stress, as well as other mental health struggles such as anxiety, depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. According to the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), “Intrusive thoughts are unwanted thoughts that can pop up in our minds unannounced, at any time. Their repeated occurrence can make
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What Are Trauma Triggers?
When someone has experienced trauma, they are very often left with residual and long-lasting effects. One of these effects is what we commonly call ‘triggers.’ A trigger is essentially an instinctual response based on external stimuli that associate with the trauma a person has experienced. Any sensation (such as smell, sound, or touch), situation or
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