Find a Healing Step That Works for You

If you’re beginning the process of moving beyond your traumatic experience and through your PTSD, it is important to treat the whole process with patience and gentleness. Especially in the beginning stages of your journey, there is a… Read More

Employee Rights and PTSD

As PTSD comes to the forefront of the American attention, the issue of working it into employee rights also gains momentum. Securing rights for those with visible, physical disabilities has been relatively straightforward. Wheelchair ramps, new technology to… Read More

Rewiring the Brain to Buffer Social Pain

As humans, we are inherently social creatures. Consequently we feel pain when we experience exclusion in social situations. For the most part we have just learned to deal with it and accept it as part of life. But… Read More

Accessing the Split Self

Dissociation is not an uncommon reaction to traumas in life, and separating oneself from a traumatic event provides a form of psychological buffer and protection from emotional pain. This manifests itself in almost a “split self,” with an… Read More

Change Your Negativity for Better Healing

It can be so easy to get into negative thought patterns, but that kind of negativity will pull you down and make it harder for you to grow and develop as a person. After a traumatic incident, you… Read More

Mindfulness Meditation to Create a Healthy Brain

Stress has such a significant impact on one’s general health and well-being that there are many new research studies dedicated to impacting stress levels. In a new study by researchers at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine,… Read More

Lessons from a Mugging

After an event so jarring as a mugging, it can be difficult to regain your comfort in the world and see any light in the situation. But in fact, there are many lessons to be gained from such… Read More

How to Use a Positivity Journal to Gain Life Perspective

While journaling is an excellent habit to get into for channeling your thoughts and feelings, you may find that simply getting these things down on paper isn’t enough to relieve your anxieties about your day. A new exercise… Read More

Can Empathy Change the Brain’s Response to Pain?

The human brain is a miraculous machine, one which we still have so much to learn about. How the brain processes pain is a particularly interesting topic, especially for those who are trying to manage pain in any… Read More

Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, or Burnout?

The Dalai Lama said, “In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel “burnout” setting in it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a… Read More