Caring Matters
Movies can help us explore our psyches and heal our past traumas, Watching an emotional film triggers our mirror neurons and recreates within us the emotions felt by the characters we watch. Most of us [Read More]
Love makes the world go round. We need love, as much as we need food, water, and shelter – our lives are lonely and meaningless without it. Unfortunately, in modern times the word ‘love’ is [Read More]
No one can really understand the real interpersonal dynamics in a dysfunctional family. The subterfuge, the denial, the hate, the animosity all behind a cloak of normalcy. That pervading, putrid existence of pretense that shutters the [Read More]
Most survivors of childhood trauma struggle to heal from their abusive past. Growing up, we try to show we are strong and unfazed by what is happening, we numb and blank out the abuse. Then [Read More]
Nature is good for our mind body and spirit. It restores and rejuvenates us. Being in natural surroundings like green forests or swimming in the blue ocean has the power to heal and cure mental [Read More]
The pain of the past, unfortunately, keeps you stuck in a time zone of terror and fear. It splits your still-developing self into fragments. You adopt a coping mechanism that helps you survive. You deny [Read More]
Most of us have not been lucky to have had good mirroring when we were growing up. We were constantly admonished, reprimanded, undermined, and forced to submit to the dictates of the adults in our [Read More]
I am glad I grew up with the tradition of Santa Claus. My brother and I would tell my mother what we wanted for X-mas and she’d say she would call Santa from her [Read More]
For those of us recovering from child abuse, our sense of self is distorted. We literally don’t exist but to cater to the twisted expectations of our toxic families. Then one day we wake up [Read More]
Healing from childhood abuse entails rewiring our brain from fear reactivity to one of feeling safe. This can happen through limbic revision. The rewiring of our limbic system, the part of the brain that controls [Read More]