Caring Matters
Memory reconsolidation is an important aspect of trauma healing. Remembering, accepting, making sense, and shifting those painful memories where they belong – in the past. You don’t forget traumatic memories; however, it moves into long-term [Read More]
Schemas are mental maps we unconsciously form as we grow up. Right from birth onwards, our brain creates schemas or ‘cognitive frameworks’ to categorize and organize semantic memory. They help us quickly navigate similar future [Read More]
As one heals from childhood trauma one realizes that much of our personality is a trauma response. How we relate to people and situations are the coping patterns from our dysfunctional childhood. The survival strategies [Read More]
Disruption of the attachment bond is the most common cause of childhood trauma. The people who were supposed to love and care for us instead harmed us. Being treated like shit by one’s own family [Read More]
Most of us have heard about the Hebbian theory, ‘neurons that fire together wire together.’ Trauma causes faulty neuronal brain wiring. Thus, healing from trauma entails changing how the neurons in our brain fire and [Read More]
Constantly feeling fearful and anxious, maybe you should check your GABA levels. GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in our brain. Meaning it helps calm our brain by blocking excitatory nerve signals in [Read More]
Those early interpersonal interactions with our primary caregivers are the building block of identity formation. They are the look-glass through which we form our core beliefs (lovable/good-enough or unlovable/defective) which in turn molds our mindset(mental [Read More]
An integral part of feeling human is that sense of belongingness. We are innately programmed to want to belong to something/someone beyond ourselves. At the core of belongingness are acceptance, support, and protection. Prolonged lack [Read More]
Growing up in a dysfunctional home, one had to adapt and adjust to the chaos all around. Subconsciously, we adopted coping strategies or defense mechanisms to survive our abnormal situations. Often these habitual patterns of [Read More]
One important step in my healing process is becoming wise about human nature. It has meant changing how I view the world and my relationships. There were so many untruths from my childhood I have [Read More]