Tag: Developmental Trauma
Why Mental Problems Seem Like Such a Mystery
It’s Not “Genetic” Popular culture likes to believe that mental problems are the result of bad genes or a person being a “bad seed.” Or …
An Absence of Feeling is Pathological
It’s not “tough” to feel nothing Healthy relationships, a healthy body, and a joyful life require that you feel. An absence of feeling is no …
Why Groups are Good for your Mental Health
To explain why group sessions are good for your mental health, I first need to tell you some basic things about your evolutionary history, your …
How Can a Kid Kill?
With all the speculation out there right now about “mental health” and its relationship to mass shootings, I decided to answer the question, how can …
Trauma And Mindfulness: What Are They And Why Do We Keep Hearing About Them?
If you are looking for help with your emotions or behavior (and you’re searching the internet for insight) you’re probably seeing those words everywhere. They are among the most common and popular words in the self-help and therapy worlds right now. So, what do they mean?
What Is Trauma?
When you think, “trauma,” I bet you picture the emergency room in a hospital. Head injuries, blood, stuff like that. While that is definitely trauma, it’s not what we mean in the therapy world.
