Understanding our sensory systems With trauma-informed parenting, it is important to understand our sensory systems. There are 8 sensory systems, but we often recall 5. Smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste. It’s part of how we get ourselves through the world. When you study babies, you can clearly see they are little sensate beings. They…
Read moreHere is the thing, there are a lot of therapists and people in the general population that don’t realize how prevalent trauma is to this day. The truth is even therapists struggle with trauma. They must find space for themselves to begin to work through issues like phobias, anxiety, nightmares, and more. Sometimes people will…
Read moreA Brief Review of Top-Down Therapy Approaches & Understanding Children Generally, when therapists are working on their education, we are trained developmentally from ages 5 years and beyond. Essentially, this allows for psychological testing at this age. Many of the young adults and teens that therapists experience often are dealing with issues, that now as…
Read more*The names and characters in this article represent a composite of people I know personally and professionally. No real person is represented in this article, which is intended for educational purposes to address trauma and relationships.* Michael can’t understand it. He just doesn’t get what is going on with his wife of over 25 years,…
Read moreWe all realize that experiencing a scary or overwhelming event can affect an individual. Oddly enough, it’s common in Western culture to dismiss the long-term impact of traumatic experiences. Here’s a summary of Episode 2 of Trauma Chat podcast, which explains what is trauma is in basic terms. In this week’s episode of Trauma Chat,…
Read moreLaura Reagan interviewed Dr. Jodie Skillicorn on Therapy Chat about holistic psychiatry and links between trauma and mental health symptoms.
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