Is your unresolved trauma making you sick? This blog post discusses the strong connection between trauma and chronic illness in midlife women. Learn just how your trauma could be impacting your current health and practical methods for helping your mind and body heal.

Holidays are hard when you’re dealing with a PTSD anniversary reaction. Robin Kulesza, LCPC, offers ways to reclaim the holidays, taking the power away from seasonal triggers and letting you make holidays your own.

If you’ve experienced trauma and think EMDR is a method that can help, you should explore it. Never worry or feel bad that you can’t recall your trauma. It’s human nature to enter self-preservation mode. Many people share the same inability to fully remember their memories.

Childhood trauma can be a precursor to toxic relationships, feeling not good enough, feeling like a failure, and even addiction in adulthood. This is not entirely surprising, as we know early childhood to be a critical emotional, mental and physical time for development. The negative and positive experiences that imprinted in those early years teach us and greatly determine how we see the world and people. These influences of childhood trauma on adulthood can be subconscious, or even unknown to some people experiencing it. However, understanding the way our history influences us can help us navigate solutions and change to improve our social, emotional and mental health, as well as self-respect and self-esteem and how we function in our relationships.

Bilateral stimulation is a therapeutic technique that has gained popularity recently for its effectiveness in treating anxiety and trauma. This technique stimulates both sides of the body—through eye movement, tapping, vibrations/pulses, or auditory tones—to help the brain process and resolve emotional distress. Bilateral stimulation is the chief technique used in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, a type of psychotherapy that focuses on overriding the effects of trauma and other negative life experiences.

Have you found yourself wondering why you do the things you do in relationships? Or found yourself falling into the same patterns, even in new relationships? Patterns that feel like they’re making it hard to develop or sustain a healthy relationship? Early childhood experiences of trauma, or even the way you felt connected and cared for by your caregivers (your attachment style) may be to blame. Your attachment style, which is developed from very early childhood, may be a key component to understanding yourself and why you feel how you do when in relationships.

Anyone can be a target of emotional abuse. This article was written to give anyone that has been subjected to emotional abuse some easy ways to start reclaiming your life and building your self-esteem back up again. You may not be able to control your abuser, but you can control how you take care of yourself.