10 Ideas to Make Your DIY Spa Day Super Relaxing| Simply Midori
Treat yourself to the relaxation and indulgence of a spa session without breaking your budget: create an at-home DIY spa night; filled with treatments from facials to foot masks. This guide will soothe you in body, mind, and soul. Get creative – all it takes is some time for self-care to help relax your stress […]
Rediscover Your Strength: Healing from Betrayal Trauma
Betrayal. A breach of trust. Fear. What you thought was true—counted on to be true—was not. It was just smoke and mirrors, outright deceit and lies. Sometimes, it was hard to tell because there was just enough truth to make everything seem right. Even a little truth with just the right spin can cover the […]
How To Trust People After Trauma
Once you have experienced trauma, be it abuse as a child or a trauma bond as an adult, you might be uncomfortable with intimacy and struggle with trust. Something inside of you says you will only end up getting hurt if you fully open up and get close to someone. This conflict of worries makes […]
Trauma Bonding: How To Break A Trauma Bond Relationship
Trauma bonds are addictive. They produce brain chemicals that are hard to overcome. When people get involved in relationships that are toxic, they become hooked on the good experiences their spouse can bring into their lives. Breaking that addiction is essentially overcoming the undeniably strong brain chemistry created by powerful emotional experiences. It’s almost impossible […]
Trauma Bonding Test For Relationships- Are You In One?
Trauma Bond In Relationships- Decide If You’re In One I would like to start off this blog with a trauma bond test. This will help you work out if you’re in a trauma bonded relationship, are experiencing emotional abuse, or are still trauma-bonded to an ex-spouse. How do you know if you have a trauma […]
How to Break the Chain of Generational Curses and Transform Your Family’s Destiny Pt. 2
How to Heal Your Family Dysfunction and End Generational Curses 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me – Exodus 20:5, NIV (New […]
12 Principles of Healing For Trauma and Codependency
12 Principles of Healing For Trauma and Codependency Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. —William James Believing in our ability to get better is a crucial first step in healing, even when we don’t know how the brain or the body heals after trauma. What we’re sure […]
How To Heal Childhood Trauma
Like you, I wear many hats. I’m both curious and impatient. I’m a wife, a mother, a daughter, a friend, a counselor, and more. I’m also someone shaped by trauma. Like many of you reading this, I’ve faced significant challenges. I recognize that my challenges are my own, but I’m not alone in facing them. […]
Zenith of Resilience: Unraveling Childhood PTSD with Triumph
“Time does not heal all wounds. One does not ‘just get over’ something—not even fifty years later. Instead, time conceals. And human beings convert traumatic emotional experiences in childhood into organic disease later in life.” Vincent J. Felitti, MD In the mid-1980s, Dr. Vincent J Felitti and Robert Anda, MD, conducted a study through the […]
Find Resilience with a Pioneering Childhood Trauma Test
“Traumatic events of the earliest years of infancy and childhood are not lost but, like a child’s footprints in wet cement, are often preserved lifelong. Time does not heal the wounds that occur in those earliest years; time conceals them. They are not lost; they are embodied .” VJ Felitti As a survivor of […]