Our early experiences impact our ability to form healthy interpersonal relationships with not just others, but with ourselves. Essentially, attachment trauma impacts our ability to feel safe with others and ourselves.

Therapy is hard work, especially when we unpack stories and experiences we’ve suppressed for years. Sometimes, you leave a session feeling extra tired, disoriented, and uncomfortable.

Learn how to heal from an avoidant attachment style and develop healthier relationships. Explore strategies and practices to overcome fear of intimacy, build trust, and cultivate a secure attachment style for a happier and more fulfilling life.

Fawning is a response or reaction to trauma where the goal is to please others and be others focused. Trauma is an experience or circumstance that overwhelms our bodies, brains, and nervous system because of the possibility of death, violence, loss, and more.

Affirmations can be one way to re-parent or give ourselves love that we may not have received from our caregivers.

The inner child is your younger self as a child. This part of you is the unvarnished, innocent, open, trusting, tender, and loving version of you before you grew older and became exposed to the perils of live and living.

Men live under a code of masculinity that expects them to be: dominant, aggressive, high achieving, competitive, self-sufficient, adventure seeking, willing to take risks and emotionally restricted. Living up to these expectations can have a toll on emotional and personal well-being.

While there has been much discussion around codependency, less is discussed around counter-dependency.

Practicing trauma therapy is hard, hard work. The liability in this career is burn out, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma are all higher risks and probability. These are 10 things I’ve learned since practicing as a trauma therapist in 2018.