trauma – Healing a Hearts Loss

Triggers with Loss & More

July 10, 2022July 4, 2022 by wpadmin

Continuing from the prior blog post this month about “Families & Veterans: How Grief and Loss Continue after War” I have provided information about triggers associated with Veterans which share components with grief and loss in general. The term “Trigger” is...

Is trauma connected to your loss?

January 16, 2022December 13, 2021 by wpadmin

In previous postings I wrote about being stuck and motivational ideas but I want to point out there are sometimes valid...

What Colour is your Grief?

October 7, 2020 by wpadmin

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

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 by wpadmin

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)

August 31, 2019September 10, 2019 by wpadmin

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

January 20, 2019January 13, 2019 by wpadmin

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

August 14, 2017 by wpadmin

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

March 5, 2017February 3, 2017 by wpadmin

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

February 5, 2017January 24, 2017 by wpadmin

Is trauma connected to your loss?

January 8, 2017 by wpadmin

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...

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Triggers with Loss & More

Is trauma connected to your loss?

What Colour is your Grief?

Adverse Childhood Experiences

What others might not know about SUICIDE LOSS (part one of three)

Grief and Traumas Show on Your Face

Helping Children Express Grief

“FIGHT OR FLIGHT” response to stress and loss

FIGHT OR FLIGHT” response to stress and loss

Is trauma connected to your loss?

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