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Healing and Growing Post-Trauma
Post-Traumatic Growth explores how individuals can experience profound personal growth following traumatic events. It highlights five key domains: personal strength, closer relationships, appreciation for life, new possibilities, and spiritual development. By embracing these areas, trauma survivors can transform their pain into a catalyst for a deeper, more meaningful life, finding resilience and hope along the way.
Integrating Our Stories: From Pain to Healing
When I tell people that my therapy practice centers around trauma and grief, there is inevitably a story that longs to be shared. I want to hear people’s stories—they’re a core part of the person they’ve become.
SMALL is a Trauma Response
Small means “I keep to myself, especially when I feel uncomfortable.” However, connection and support are what really help in these scenarios. Knowing your reaction to stressful circumstances is only the first step. Here is how to navigate asking for help if being small is one of your trauma responses.
All or nothing. That is the question.
Here are a few things to consider, if you’re finding yourself stuck in an all or nothing mindset in certain areas of your life, and what to do about it.