Common responses to trauma are the flight/fight/freeze/fawn mechanisms. When we do not like how we feel from trauma, we tend to do something to help us forget about ...

Trauma isn't always a dramatic, visible wound. Often, its presence in our lives is far more subtle, woven into the fabric of our daily routines and manifesting as seemingly innocuous habits or ...

Sometimes your behaviors aren't 'codependent', they're just a normal reaction to your life experiences. These days, everything seems to get labeled as co-dependency issues. Trouble sleeping without ...

Your people-pleasing habit isn't a personality quirk. It could, in fact, be a deep-rooted trauma response you’ve never even questioned. When you grow up in unpredictable environments or experience ...

This post is the second of a series about dispelling trauma myths. (You can read the first one here.) As a phenomenon, trauma involves a collection of experiences and reactions rooted in our ...