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Mindful advice from trauma-informed counsellors and therapists to help you transform your life

 

5 life-enhancing benefits of EMDR therapy

5 life-enhancing benefits of EMDR therapy

­Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used by trauma-informed therapists worldwide to help people gently and quickly process traumatic events.   But what does eye movement have to do with your emotional wellbeing? Everything. Rapid eye movement...

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Here’s What You Need To Know About Traumatic Memories

Here’s What You Need To Know About Traumatic Memories

Having Flashbacks or Nightmares?Here’s What You Need To Know About Traumatic Memories    If you’ve ever experienced overwhelming stress, shock, abuse, loss, neglect, or violence, your nervous system probably went into protection mode to keep you safe. By shutting down...

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5 Signs You’re Dissociating

5 Signs You’re Dissociating

There are many myths and misconceptions about dissociation that can prevent people from getting the help they need. But understanding the signs of dissociation could be your first step to living a life of connection and meaning.    As we move through daily life, it's...

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3 Reasons We Need to Talk About Trauma

3 Reasons We Need to Talk About Trauma

Did you know about 70% of adults will experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime?Trauma is more common than you think. We all have our wounds.  But the idea of talking about what happened to us can be confronting, terrifying, or humiliating. And so, we...

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Is connection really the key to healing trauma?

Is connection really the key to healing trauma?

It takes courage and commitment to heal from trauma. And because relationship is often the source of trauma and heartache, it’s also the key to healing.    So often we’re told that before we can heal we need to learn to be alone. And while it’s true that solitude...

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10 proven ways to improve your sleep pattern

10 proven ways to improve your sleep pattern

Have you ever suffered from sleep deprivation? It’s not fun, is it? While we can all have a bad night’s sleep on occasion. Some of us really struggle to get enough sleep most nights. This could be caused by any number of things, such as being on social media at all...

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Think you know a narcissist? Think again.

Think you know a narcissist? Think again.

Do you know someone who is highly competitive, charming, ingratiating, entitled, superior, grandiose or self-absorbed? The chances are, you probably do and you’ve possibly considered them a ‘narcissist’ and the chances are that you’d be wrong. These are all...

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