by Suzanne Hall | Nov 6, 2024 | Emotion Focused Therapy, Trauma
In the world of psychology, it’s often said that changing your thoughts will lead to emotional change. This is the basis of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which says that by shifting our thoughts, we can influence how we feel. But what if emotions come first,...
by Suzanne Hall | Oct 11, 2024 | Relationships, Trauma
Our brains recreate the familiar conditions from our childhood. This means that in relationships, we tend to choose partners who reflect characteristics from our past, just as we reflect parts of theirs. Then, we tend to trigger behaviors in each other that recreate...
by Suzanne Hall | Sep 30, 2024 | Dissociation, Trauma
Most of what you’ll find online about dissociation—whether it’s academic or more general-public stuff—focuses on the extremes. They’ll give examples of the everyday dissociation everyone experiences, like highway hypnosis, where you drive somewhere, zone out, and...
by Suzanne Hall | Sep 14, 2024 | Dissociation, Trauma
What do we do when faced with a threat? When we’re faced with a threat, in a split second, beyond our awareness, our primal brain instinctively determines the stress response that gives us the best chance of living. Your primal brain determines which one will...
by Suzanne Hall | Aug 28, 2024 | Deprivation Trauma, Trauma
Deprivation trauma is about what you missed out on when you were growing up. But, when we think about trauma, we usually think about the things that happened, or were done – like physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse or exposure to family violence. We...
by Suzanne Hall | Aug 14, 2024 | Trauma
Triggers are trauma memories When you are ‘triggered’ you are having a bodily or emotional memory of the trauma. You’re experiencing the emotions and bodily sensations you experienced at the time of the trauma, even if you have no memory of what happened to you. But...
