Christina Rose, LPC

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Trauma and Well-Meaning Relatives An Open Letter on the Occasion of my Wedding. I blinked at my latest text messages. Within the past 12 hours, I had received two more inquiries about my wedding - and whether it would be held in the Catholic church. One was from an old friend, who I tried to assume the best of intentions. “Maybe s...

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Cracked Up Cracked Up is a documentary film that explores the impact of childhood trauma and toxic stress through the story of SNL star Darrell Hammond.

What Happens to Your Body During the Fight or Flight Response? Your survival response explained

How Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect You as an Adult What are adverse childhood experiences and how do they impact us later in life?

The Difference between Dependency and Codependency It’s normal and healthy to depend on others. Codependency, however, is very different than the type of dependency found in well-functioning relationships. What is interdependency? Humans are social beings and we’ve always lived in communities...

Why You Need to Protect Your Boundaries ... and the danger of boundary blindsiding by oversharers.

A Brief Guide to Unprocessed Childhood Toxic Shame Toxic shame is one of the most common debilitating feelings that people struggle with. Toxic shame is a term that refers to a chronic feeling or emotional state of feeling bad, worthless, inferior, and fundamentally flawed. It is called toxic because...

The Secret to Making Friends as an Adult Overcoming overt and covert avoidance, and showing up.

You Can Train Your Brain To Thrive During Trauma & Stress — Here's How A former U.S. Army intelligence officer shares her method.

How Bibliotherapy Can Help Students Open Up About Their Mental Health Librarians and counselors are teaming up to give teens an option for understanding and opening up about their mental health through books.

Loneliness is the New Smoking - Thrive Global Being isolated has a negative impact on our happiness. Explore healing social anxiety and loneliness.

5 Ways Childhood Emotional Neglect Sets You Up For Boundary Issues 7-year-old Alex feels certain that his teacher does not like him. A bright, active, and sensitive second grader, Alex has been spoken to sharply several times in the last couple of months. Each time his teacher asks him to sit down in a firm tone, he...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/mindful-anger/201910/heal-trauma-you-have-feel-your-feelings

To Heal from Trauma, You Have to Feel Your Feelings Feeling your feelings is one of the healthiest things you can do.

Intergenerational Trauma Is a Biological Reality Can timely intervention in epigenetic changes prevent the cycle of trauma?

http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/what-and-not-trauma-and-compassion-fatigue

What is—and is not—trauma and compassion fatigue Here’s an overview of what psychology experts say constitutes trauma, plus some examples that place these definitions firmly in the world of veterinary professionals.

Trauma is the root cause of addiction, according to Dr. Gabor Mate Trauma is at the nature of addiction according to Dr. Gabor Maté. “Addiction is only a symptom, it’s not the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is trauma,” said Dr. Maté…

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/10/the-echoes-of-trauma/

The Echoes Of Trauma Figuring out a self-care plan is vital and will be unique to the person. There is no shame in asking for professional help in putting that plan together. Start today.

Thursday thoughts

https://humanparts.medium.com/the-danger-in-fake-positivity-and-spiritual-bypassing-c202040b8dd3

The Danger in Fake Positivity and Spiritual Bypassing Negative emotions and experiences allow us to grow

How Trauma Can Damage the Brain for Generations and Can Be Reversed - The Best Brain Possible Epigenetics is proving that trauma changes genes influencing mental health. The bad news is that it can be inherited. The good news is that it can be reversed.

Coping with Change: Feeling Safe as a Trauma Survivor Change can be unsettling for all of us. But if you’ve experienced trauma (recently or many years ago), you may feel especially stressed when you experience changes in your life. In this guest post, psychotherapist Robyn Brickel explains how trauma...

Mindfulness: The Power of Awareness Diana Winston on how to use the tools of mindfulness to work with negative patterns like shame, guilt, and self-criticism that stand in the way of caring for and liking yourself.

How to Teach Your Kids about Their Inner Critic - Mindful Kids need ease and fun when it comes to difficult tasks like challenging negative self-talk, says Dr. Hazel Harrison. She introduces “The Critical Critter” for exploring self-critical thoughts with your child.

Grief vs. Traumatic Grief Dealing with unexpected loss.

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Stephen Porges - Polyvagal Theory: how your body makes the decision Prof. Stephen Porges, the originator of the polyvagal theory illustrates his scientific approach in a conversation with Dr. Gunther Schmidt. They discuss the...