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Why Ending Adult Friendships Feels So Painful and Confusing
Finding true connection is one of the greatest gifts in life. Amid all the heartbreak and triumphs you might experience, good friends create and elevate irreplaceable memories. They often act as an anchor when life feels unpredictable or stressful. This is why ending...
What Does a Realistic CPTSD Recovery Look Like?
The trauma recovery journey is highly individualistic, and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) recovery tends to be more nuanced and complicated than single-episode PTSD resolution. While you won't forget or "get over" what happened to you, a true sense of...
Non-Linear Progress in Therapy: How to Understand Change
Non-linear progress in therapy means that personal growth and healing don't happen on a straightforward trajectory. Instead, progress often unfolds in ways that feel unpredictable, choppy, or even sideways Progress in therapy isn’t always neat. Sometimes it looks like...
PTSD Vs CPTSD: Understanding the Similarities and Differences
Trauma impacts everyone differently, and even if you do identify with having some trauma in your past, you may not fully understand its effects or symptoms. Trauma is much more than the "content" of the event itself- instead, it's about how it may uniquely impact your...
What are the Best Alternatives to EMDR?
Although much has been said and written about eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), there's far less discussion about the alternatives to EMDR. It's true that EMDR can be highly effective and may heal past trauma at a faster rate than more conventional...
Understanding Shame and the Fear of Getting Into Trouble
The relationship between shame and the fear of getting into trouble is deeply complex and can be difficult to work through. If you resonate with having shame, you may hold onto an underlying belief that something is profoundly wrong with you. Furthermore, the idea of...
Grief During the Winter: Why It Can All Feel So Heavy
For many people, grief during the winter season can feel especially charged. The days are shorter, the weather is colder, and the winter holiday season often feels like a bag of mixed emotions. If you're experiencing grief this time of year, you're not alone, although...
Regressing During the Holidays: Why It Happens and How to Cope
Have you ever gone home for the holidays and felt like a little kid around your own family? Or have you ever felt like you're one person around the people in your current life but someone else when you go home for the holidays? If so, this may speak to experiencing...
How to Deal With Difficult Family Members During the Holidays
Do you find the holidays to be more exhausting than joyful? More dreadful than connecting? Does dealing with difficult family members during the holidays make you want to skip out on this time of year altogether? If so, you're certainly not alone. A recent study found...