Attachment is a concept that is spoken about a lot. Formed in the earliest years of our lives, it goes on to impact us for a lifetime. Yet it is surprisingly difficult to find any reading material that goes beyond infants to how it impacts adults in relationships. This article, by Adam Young, is the best I have found yet.
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Dissociation Part 1 – Why do we dissociate? The answer is millions of years old.
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 give...
Deprivation 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 may...
Trauma has no sense of time
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...