Mental Health in 2022
Mental health can be difficult to prioritize, with almost 1 in 5 people coping with a mental illness according to the National Mental Health Institute.
Self-Help Tips for Mental health
Many mental health problems can be self-managed by adopting a few practical self-care techniques. These may help prevent ongoing symptoms from getting worse.
Trauma Tips #13: How Covid-19 Trauma May Affect You And Your Kids
Whether it’s COVID-19, an accident, assault, crime or a natural disaster we all feel overwhelmed at some point. Although each one of us experiences events like these at some point in our lives, some of us absorb the proverbial shock waves better than others.
Trauma Tips #12: What is trauma reenactment?
Trauma reenactment is the replaying of our response to traumatic incidents. Undealt with, these responses can replay over and over in our adult lives. As time goes on, this becomes normal and unhealthy, and is how subconscious patterns develop.
Trauma Tips #11: Feeling Safe When Trauma Hits
Many of us seem to have anxious feelings running through our bodies at the most undetermined time. Have you ever wondered where it comes from? Could it be your inner fire alarm, running in the background and ringing throughout your body? Perhaps the greatest stress you will ever face is the thought that you can’t protect yourself from life itself.
Let’s lay the foundation and explain how trauma is related to addiction. I will start today’s podcast by explaining what I mean by substance use disorders and behavioral addictions.
Trauma Tips #10: Trauma and Addictive Behaviors
As discussed in previous podcasts, traumatic events can lead to unhealthy patterns of thinking. In turn, these patterns can manifest as substance addictions and other negative ways of coping, such as behavioral addictions, with the traumatic residue.
Let’s lay the foundation and explain how trauma is related to addiction. I will start today’s podcast by explaining what I mean by substance use disorders and behavioral addictions.
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