Explore evidence-informed articles on childhood trauma, PTSD, dissociation, anxiety, attachment, and the healing process. These articles are designed to help you better understand your experiences and learn about effective, trauma-informed approaches to recovery.
Whether you’re beginning therapy or simply looking to better understand yourself, I hope these articles offer knowledge, reassurance, and hope.
Latest Articles
Why Do I Feel Guilty When I Set Boundaries?
Why can another person’s disappointment feel like evidence that you’ve done something wrong? Explore why setting a boundary can bring guilt and what that guilt may tell us about relationships and responsibility.
Complex Trauma Therapy for Couples
Loving someone while both partners are carrying patterns shaped by earlier experiences can make conflict and emotional closeness especially complicated. Explore how complex trauma can influence relationships and what couples therapy can help partners understand about these recurring patterns.
Shame can make a mistake feel like evidence that something is wrong with you. Explore how shame shapes the way we see ourselves, why reassurance doesn’t always help, and how a more compassionate relationship with yourself can gradually develop.
Why Do I People-Please? Part 2
When you’ve spent years focusing on what other people need, knowing what you want can feel surprisingly difficult. Part 2 explores what happens when you begin making more room for your own needs and preferences.
Why can focusing on other people’s needs become so automatic? Explore how people-pleasing can develop and why having more choice matters.
Why Do I Keep People at a Distance?
You may want close relationships yet find yourself pulling away when someone begins to matter. Explore why closeness can feel difficult even when connection is something you genuinely want.
Why Do I Shut Down During Conflict?
Do you find yourself going blank or shutting down during conflict, only to think of what you wanted to say afterwards? Explore why this can happen and how the freeze response may develop as a way of protecting yourself during difficult interactions.
What Does Dissociation Feel Like?
Dissociation can feel confusing and frightening, especially if you don’t have words for the experience. Learn why people may feel detached from themselves, emotionally numb, or as though the world isn’t quite real—and how these experiences often represent the nervous system’s attempt to protect itself after trauma.
Learn how Complex PTSD can develop after prolonged or repeated trauma, how it differs from PTSD, and how earlier experiences can continue to affect emotions, relationships, and a person’s sense of self.
7 Signs Childhood Trauma May Still Be Affecting You
Discover seven ways childhood trauma can continue to influence emotions, relationships, self-esteem, and daily life—and why recognizing these patterns can be an important first step in understanding them.
