VIEWED IN 3 DIFFERENT WAYS
Here is a tool for you to use that can be reworked in different ways.
I am going to address the concept of colours in grief in...
Adverse Childhood Experiences
I want to share this with counsellors, since I recently realized there are some who have never heard of this. So interesting; how trauma affects how we turn out as adults…who would have...
What others might not know about SUICIDE LOSS (part one of three)
Below is some of what others might not know about SUICIDE LOSS and the experiences that someone has when a suicide death happens to a person they care about. Not only care about, but perhaps they have found the deceased...
Grief and Traumas Show on Your Face
The more I counsel an individual, the more I see the stress from loss and traumas leave their face. I have always said grief is mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. I cannot see the spiritual components on the outside of someone,...
Helping Children Express Grief
Recently I was reading an article about children, grief and trauma. Specifically referring to how a trauma may cause children to have difficulty with speech. I want to share a few ideas that may help.
As adults, sometimes we are not...
“FIGHT OR FLIGHT” response to stress and loss
Sometimes excessive stress, trauma and loss cause an individual to go into fight or flight mode where threats to survival or the “enemy” are seen or perceived to be everywhere, in everyone and everything.
Going to this type of thinking or...
FIGHT OR FLIGHT” response to stress and loss
Sometimes excessive stress, trauma and loss cause an individual to go into fight or flight mode where threats to survival or the “enemy” are seen or perceived to be everywhere, in everyone and everything.
Going to this type of thinking or...
Is trauma connected to your loss?
Sometimes there appear to be valid reasons for being stuck in grief.
You might ask what a reason for being stuck is;
- Fear of forgetting that person
- Time to “be” with the sadness
- Complicated issues associated with the grieving process
- Being...
TIR & Life’s Traumas Revisited
Grief – Insomnia - Disturbing Memories – Guilt – Anxieties – Nightmares and more…
Have you ever noticed that traumas perceived as a child seem to linger into adulthood? Not only linger, the traumas seem to get more added to them...
Abortion as a Component of Disenfranchised Grief
When looking at the statistics for abortions, or perhaps when trying to figure out how many abortions are performed a year it is very difficult to determine. Depending on where you search even with the internet; there is no true...
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