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Navigating Food and Family- Holiday Addition
This video will help to explain how to make this holiday season most successful for you, especially when it comes to navigating self-care through nourishment with food, no matter where you are in your recovery journey.
Feb 31 min read


How Do You Know If You Have Been Traumatized?
This video explains the diagnostic criteria for what trauma therapist look for with PTSD and traumatization, as well as explains the processing time that the brain needs in order to consolidate life events.
Feb 31 min read


EMDR and OCD
EMDR is a great way to bring to light a better understanding of someone's OCD and how to break the cycle of frustrating thoughts and behaviors.
Feb 31 min read


EMDR 2.0- Say What?
EMDR 2.0 is an excellent intervention to use for individuals who have been unsuccessful with the standard protocol of EMDR in the past, and who have a difficult time staying in the window of tolerance when processing.
Feb 31 min read


Who's A Good Candidate for EMDR and BSP?
The experience is much different than your typical talk therapy and can lead to deeper and more, connect insight, to better understand why you feel the way you do certain situations, realizing your response systems to triggers, and how to manage them better.
Feb 31 min read


You've Heard of EMDR, But What Are EMDr and EMD?
EMDr and EMD are wonderful accompaniments to EMDR and can feel like a much safer and tolerable way to process and sit with upsetting life experiences.
Feb 31 min read


Types and Benefits of Bilateral Stimulation
You can also use BLS to reduce anxiety, feel happier and more connected, and use it as an effective tool to manage day to day stress! There are different types of bilateral stimulation you can use right in the comfort of your own home to start feeling better, faster.
Feb 31 min read


Positive vs Negative Coping Skills
This video helps to explain step-by-step, how to reframe, break old habits and create new healthy ways coping. We all do it, so we all may as well learn better ways of going about it!
Feb 31 min read


Book Review- Brainspotting by David Grand
This book goes into detail about the neurobiology of how Brainspotting works, how it is a wonderful trauma treatment to use in therapy and how it can benefit many types pf presenting problems such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, performance anxiety and more.
Feb 31 min read


Book Review- The F*ck It Diet
This is such a good supplement to therapy, to help one stay on track with their recovery goals in between sessions. Plus, the writing prompts encourage deeper understanding and connection to the importance of change and how to master it in a mindful and courageous way. This is a must-read!
Feb 31 min read


What To Do About Nightmares
This video explains why we dream, when to pay attention to nightmares in particular, and also what to try if you keep having nightmares. You will learn about the interaction between traumatic experiences or PTSD and nightmares, what the brain is trying to do amidst a dream or nightmare, and most importantly- things to do to help reduce or eliminate them.
Feb 31 min read


What Is Gray Rock Method?
The Gray Rock Method is an intervention used to help neutralize and protect yourself from the harm that comes from interacting with someone who is "toxic", abusive, or carries narcissistic traits. These techniques help this harmful individual to lose interest in interacting with you, as usually they are looking for a big reaction, fear, or confusion.
Feb 21 min read


Vagus Nerve Reset Exercise
In this video you will learn a fast way to reset that part of your nervous system so that you can function more easily and more confidently throughout your day. Try it and and let me know how you feel!
Feb 21 min read


What Is Body Dysmorphia?
Body dysmorphia can lead to serious mental health issues and is often seen alongside conditions like anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, substance use disorders, depression, and trauma. Luckily there are many interventions and treatments available to help improve body dysmorphia such as CBT therapy.
Feb 21 min read


Guided Meditation for Healing Attachment Wounds- BioLateral Sound
This protocol is intended to help individuals begin their journey to healing childhood wounds, particularly from caregivers or parents who were unable to meet their child's needs.
Feb 22 min read


Self-Confidence- How to Get It Back
A feeling of competency and trust in one's own judgment, abilities, performance, and personality. Its being able to walk into a room full of people and to NOT be consumed with thoughts about yourself- are you too much...are you not enough.
Feb 21 min read


The Importance of Healing Shame
The importance of working through shame is to understand it, see how it impacts your life, and do the work with compassion and patience so as to free yourself from the constraints that shame put onto you.
Feb 21 min read


A Gentle Approach to Brainspotting- The Resource Spot
Find out how using a resource spot in brainspotting may be the perfect way for you to get started, especially if you are feeling nervous about starting. Here I explain more about what it means to "go up the mountain" vs "go around the mountain".
Feb 21 min read


The Brain-Body Connection- Why Is It So Important?
The brain-body connection is so much more complex than we may ever know. Find out how to tap in to your brain-body connection as a way to better understand your feelings and emotions.
Feb 21 min read


Differences Between EMDR and Brainspotting- Which One Is Best For You?
I call them "sister therapies" because they work so similarly in how effective they are at processing trauma. Yet, the way in which both of these treatments is administered feels very different in experience.
Feb 21 min read
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