EMDR intensives offer options if you are busy or budgeting
EMDR Intensives: How to Afford Trauma Treatment with Powerful Healing
EMDR intensives offer clients the ability to do a "deep dive" into treatment at an affordable price point.
The power of one and hope
Maintaining Hope in Turbulent Times
Staying grounded helps us maintain hope in turbulent times. Maintaining empathy, perspective, staying grounded or mobilizing creates hope.
Therapy session-preparing for trauma work
Preparing for Trauma Work in Therapy
If you want to prepare for therapy, one of the best things you can do prior to your session is to do some background reading on how trauma manifests and about the therapeutic approach decided upon by you and your therapist.
Destigmatizing Mental Health Services
So much has been said in 2020 about destigmatizing or decolonizing mental health services, but what do we really mean? It's an opportunity to step back and consider how as providers we send subtle and not so subtle messages regarding normalcy.
Healing Racial Trauma from a C-PTSD Perspective
Racial trauma allows us to look at racism from the valuable perspective of the impact on an individual's physical and mental well-being.
Retreat as Part of Your Self-Care Package
Retreating is a form of wisdom and an act of self-care to feed the soul, body and mind.
Spiritual Bypassing: Another Guest at the Denial Dinner Party
Spiritual bypassing is a coping mechanism, intentional or otherwise, that "protects" the ego from anxiety as an elaborate form of denial and avoidance.
Racial Gaslighting Urim Recovery
Racial Gaslighting
Racial gaslighting is just the tip of a number of microaggressions afflicted on Black Americans, people of color and other marginalized groups.
Self-Compassion and Self-Judgment
Self-compassion is an import from Buddhist psychology that works well with mindfulness to calm our inner critic.
