Welcome! This blog offers practical resources for understanding and healing burnout, guilt, betrayal and anxiety.
You'll find expert, easy-to-use tools informed by EMDR, Somatics, Brainspotting, and IFS to heal the root of chronic overwhelm and live with more ease and clarity.
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EMDR Therapy: Negative & Positive Cognitions with Grief
Complicated grief can manifest as intense and persistent sadness, anger, or guilt that lingers for months after a loss. These overwhelming emotions can disrupt daily life and make it difficult to move forward. EMDR therapy offers a powerful tool to address the root of these emotions. By processing specific memories and associated negative beliefs, EMDR can help you heal and reconnect to your life. Read on for more.
EMDR Therapy: A Detailed Guide to Healing Trauma
EMDR therapy offers a powerful method to heal from disturbing memories and emotional distress, including PTSD. It uses bilateral stimulation, like eye movements, to help you process past experiences in a safe and controlled environment. If you're struggling with anxiety, depression, or the lingering effects of trauma, EMDR therapy could be a key to unlocking your inner strength and reclaiming your life.
The Body Knows: Healing Trauma and Stress with Somatic Therapy
Talk therapy is great, but sometimes our pain goes deeper than words. Somatic therapy bridges the mind-body gap, helping you process grief, trauma, and self-doubt. By exploring physical sensations and gentle movement, you can release trapped emotions, build self-awareness, and discover your inner strength. It's a powerful way to heal beyond just talking. Read on if you’re wondering if somatic therapy is right for you.
No Bad Parts: A Guide to Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
Do you feel disconnected? Grief, trauma, overwhelm and self-doubt can leave us feeling fragmented and unsure of how to move forward. Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy offers a compassionate approach to healing by helping us reconnect with our inner strength and navigate difficult emotions. Learn how IFS can help you find peace and a stronger sense of self. Read on for an in-depth exploration of IFS with grief, trauma, and self-confidence.
Lost? Disrupted? Struggling?: Understanding Grief and How to Get Help
Grief hits hard. It disrupts the brain's emotional control center, scrambling the circuits for happiness and connection. This throws a wave of raw emotions – sadness, anger, emptiness – at you after any loss. Even the dread you feel when you know a loss is coming, like caring for a terminally ill loved one, can trigger this emotional storm. And for some, the intensity lingers. Read on for the science behind grief and tools and resources to help you cope.
Death Therapy: Grief Counseling that Isn't "Moving On"
Many people believe grief fades with time, neatly tucked away in the past. But loss can leave you struggling to function in the present. You might feel blindsided by a wave of emotions you don't understand, impacting your daily life in ways you can't control. As a grief specialist, I know death therapy, or grief counseling, isn't about “moving on” or pretending you're "over it." It's a space to explore your feelings, make sense of your experience, and develop helpful coping mechanisms. We'll work together to find ways to integrate your grief and navigate this difficult time.
A Focused Path to Healing: Is a Grief & Trauma Intensive Right for You?
You don't have to carry the weight of trauma and grief alone. Imagine a path to healing that's faster and more focused than weekly therapy. These intensives are designed for women seeking not just relief from their pain, but also an accelerated path to personal growth and expansion. If you're ready to make a significant shift and invest in your well-being, this post will help you decide if an intensive is the right next step for you.
10 Tips to Protect Your Mental Health in a Mountain Town
Mental health in mountain towns like Fraser or Winter Park, Colorado can be challenging in the winter. The days are shorter, it’s cold as hell, and there’s more isolation, loneliness, depression, and anger. That might contribute to the high suicide rate here in Grand County. Read on to learn about 10 ways to protect your mental health as we head into winter.
Online Therapy for Trauma and Grief: A Guide to Your First Session with Carly Pollack
What is your first session with a trauma therapist like? If you’re nervous about beginning therapy, read on to help calm your nerves. I’ll take you through the first trauma therapy session with me, including what to expect and tips to make the session comfortable. Schedule trauma therapy with me to overcome grief, PTSD, anger, and depression.
Beyond Stereotypes: Why We Misunderstand PTSD
PTSD can be confusing for several reasons. When trauma hits, your body's survival instincts can go into overdrive. This is the "fight, flight, or freeze" response, designed to protect you from danger. But sometimes, that system gets stuck on high alert, making you feel unsafe even when you're completely secure. To learn more about how to calm these instincts and begin the journey toward healing, read on.
The Limitations of Talk Therapy on PTSD Recovery
Talk therapy is a common treatment for PTSD, but it's not always the right fit. If you’ve tried talk therapy before with limited success treating your PTSD, you’re not doing it wrong- talk therapy just doesn’t always cut it. If you're struggling with PTSD, you may find that talk therapy is difficult to process a traumatic event, time-consuming, and not effective for everyone.
Overcoming PTSD's Grip on Your Sex Life: A Guide to Reclaiming Intimacy
PTSD can have a deep and frustrating impact on your sex life, but it doesn't have to define it. By acknowledging your feelings, getting to know yourself through exploration, seeking professional support, communicating with your partner, creating a safe space, exploring sensuality, and practicing self-care, you can gradually overcome PTSD's grip on your sex life. Read this blog post to learn more.
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