Mind-Balance

Despite having built greater coping resources in adulthood, we can still experience distressing events that overwhelm our coping and...

Events in childhood that threaten our physical or emotional safety are likely to outweigh our coping resources and overwhelm us, leaving...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is a clinical disorder triggered by exposure to a traumatic life-threatening event. More specifically,...

Traumatic events and subsequent trauma can be placed into three over-arching categories. Acute trauma refers to direct or vicarious...

Little t trauma results from traumatic experiences that are highly distressing and disruptive without being physically life-threatening....

Big T Trauma results from traumatic experiences that we most commonly associate with the word trauma. These can include severe...

When we experience a traumatic event, our fight-flight-freeze system gets activated. In other words, our bodies recognize the threat to...

1. Changes are tangible: Often we are stuck in unhelpful patterns that prevent us from meeting our true needs or our goals. Many of these...

Both Big T and little t can be effectively resolved through trauma-specific therapy. We cannot solely “think” our way out of trauma as...

Trauma is the reaction we have to a deeply distressing experience that outweighs our coping abilities at the time and thereby overloads...

People tend to think that depression involves being sad and hiding away from the world. While that may be a part of it, depression can be...

Anxiety is what we feel when our system perceives a threat in our environment. It manifests at four levels: feelings, thoughts, physical...

What is your core fear? It’s usually not what first comes to mind. We start to develop our core beliefs early on in life. They can colour...

These are uncertain times: It is difficult to predict what will happen next week, let alone in 3, 6 or 12 months. As humans, certainty...

You suddenly notice an increase in heart-rate and breathing, your palms get sweaty, and you can’t shake that queasy feeling at the pit of...

Many of our intense emotional reactions to triggers in our now, result from triggers that have formed in our past. People will sometimes...

If you have missed my previous article on why we have mental health stigma, follow this link to check it out. The current article is all...

Have you felt you couldn’t share your overwhelming feelings or thoughts with other people, worried you will be judged? Do the words...

Do you want a relationship, but worry that a partner may take away your independence and autonomy? Are you concerned about losing...

Have you ever been in a really good place in a relationship, but suddenly start acting differently? You push your partner away, test...