Over a year ago, I wrote a post about how trauma is “not just in your head”. Here, I follow it up with corroborating evidence. I’ve dedicated most of my life to... Read more »
New research suggests that for many children, what we call ADHD is actually a complex response to early life stress. By looking at data from 10,869 children, scientists have mapped out a... Read more »
Kalani had always dreamed of being a mother. But once she had children, her own childhood trauma made parenting far harder than she ever expected. Kalani grew up in an abusive household... Read more »
For many trauma survivors, tattoos are not about aesthetics.They are about choice and meaning. Trauma is not only something that happens to the mind. It happens to the body. Long after the... Read more »
Years ago, I worked with an emergency room nurse I’ll call Lisa, who sought my help after a horrific day in the emergency room. “We lost a child today due to child... Read more »
In our previous posts, we explored how family trauma can shape your parenting without you even knowing it, and then looked at six specific ways trauma shows up in your daily parenting.... Read more »
A new study uncovers how early wounds ripple through attachment and dissociation, shaping the path from trauma to psychosis. Key Points Repeated trauma doesn’t directly cause psychosis – it sets off a... Read more »
My-Linh Le grew up watching her parents explode over tiny mistakes. When she forgot her backpack in first grade, her mother kicked it across the room so hard it hit the wall.... Read more »
Co-written by Tyler VanderWeele and Jennifer Wortham. Our moral understanding of right and wrong, and good and evil, is fundamental to who we are. Such understanding guides our actions and evaluations and... Read more »
The treatment known as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) was developed in 1987 by an American psychologist, Dr. Francine Shapiro, for the remediation of trauma symptoms and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).... Read more »