It's normal to feel embarrassed or ashamed after an intrusive memory pops into your head. But it's important not to let those feelings keep you trapped in the past. Such thoughts can be disruptive to ...
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When Trauma is Triggered
When we experience or witness a traumatic event, it often triggers our old memories and feelings. We may find ourselves having flashbacks, nightmares, and very real physical reactions to events ...
5 Best Ways to Recover from Toxic Trauma Bonding
Why is trauma bonding detrimental to your mental health? Trauma bonding occurs when a victim develops an emotional attachment to their abuser. The key element of a traumatic bond is repeated abu...
Will Trauma Ever Go Away?
Traumatic memories are events that cause intense fear, anger, sadness, or other negative emotions. These events can be so traumatic for someone that they feel like the event is happening over an...
Easy Guide to Stop Dissociating
Dissociating can feel extremely scary and overwhelming.
It can feel like we are out of control, or maybe we don't even know we dissociated until after the fact.
So what is dissociation?
And how do make it stop?
Read ahead to find out more about coping skills for dissociation!
Coping with Anger at Parents in Adulthood
For many, coping with trauma and anger at parents in adulthood can be a lifelong struggle. Childhood or adolescent trauma and anger at parents in adulthood often lead to a number of mental and/or...
How Trauma Can Affect Your Love Life
Trauma can negatively impact the brain of the sufferer. Sometimes preventing it from functioning, and responding to certain situations properly. What's even worse is how it can also negatively impact ...
It’s Time To Redefine Trauma: Coping With Traumatic Events
What are 3 types of trauma that most people experience? They are all extremely stressful events that happen to people depending on their situation, where they are, or what they do. What does thi...
What Are Some Symptoms of Trauma?
Trauma is a heightened emotional response to a traumatic event. It can be difficult to process and work through trauma, but it is important that you do.
In addition to the negative mental health consequences of not working through your trauma, there are also physical health effects such as the increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
This article will teach you what symptoms you might have if you have experienced a traumatic event.
Can Trauma Cause Memory Loss?
If you or someone you know has suffered trauma, you might be wondering can trauma cause memory loss? Yes, research does show that trauma can affect your memory. It also shows that trauma can aff...
How Does Childhood Trauma Affect Relationships?
Traumatic experiences during childhood can have a lasting impact on our relationships as adults. This is because the brain is still developing during childhood, and traumatic experiences can cause the...
Child Therapy For Trauma
As parents, we do all that we can to protect our children. But sometimes, life can throw us some punches, and our children may go through a traumatic event at one point or another during their c...
Finding Your Safe Space
Our journey towards mental well-being and health often draws us toward inner reflection.
These reflections could be about healthy and unhealthy behaviors, people, and places in our lives.
Especially if we have gone through rough experiences and trauma, we become more susceptible to feeling unsafe constantly.
Be it our mind or body, it feels like there's a constant race going on, and our thoughts are winning.
Helping our mind and body feel safe requires a safe space for ourselves, whether it is somewhere outside or within us.
How to Build Resilience in the Age of Trauma
The age we live in is one of constant change, upheaval, and uncertainty. The more modern world we live in has become vastly different from the one our ancestors experienced thousands of years ag...
How Do I Know I Have Trauma?
With all of this newfound access to information about mental health, it can be pretty easy to get overwhelmed, especially when it comes to trauma. But what actually is trauma? And how...
Many of us are often faced with struggles and hardships and finding help can be difficult. However, at Overcomers Counseling, we are here to help you in your time of need. We are passionate about people and we believe that ANYONE can be an overcomer if they are willing to pursue it. Don't let another day go by without getting the help you desire.
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