May is Mental Health Awareness Month. With the declining mental health in 2022 reported around the world, we feel that it is important to talk about emotional wounds, and trauma. Healing from trauma is a life long process that often improves with therapy. Do you suspect that someone's mental health
Have you experienced any trauma in your childhood? Childhood trauma is any life threatening, scary, or violent experiences that happen to those 18 years old or younger. And childhood trauma can make you approach certain situations differently from others, causing more detrimental problems in life. L
Have you ever felt that your past experiences have negatively affected your current state of being? Your childhood plays a major role in shaping the person you become as you grow older. Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs for short, are traumatic events that occur before the age of 18. If you exp
Unresolved trauma can lead to trust issues, low self esteem, controlling behaviours, difficulties dealing with conflicts, and loneliness when it comes to relationships and love life. Dive deep into the world of unresolved trauma and understand its profound effects on your interpersonal connections.
Some people experience trauma at an early age and robs them of this sense of safety and security, and they often grow up to carry that trauma with them well into their adulthood. Defined as “the experience of a single or multiple events by a child that is emotionally painful or distressful,” studie
Are you in a relationship? Do you have a crush on someone right now? Are you really in love? Or are you just emotionally hungry? Emotional hunger can be caused by deprivation in childhood. Those who suffer from emotional hunger usually look to rely on something or someone else to fill a void or empt
Trauma can affect anyone at any point in life, including you. Not only difficult experiences during early childhood, but also events later in life can trigger significant trauma in individuals. The American Psychology Association defines trauma as any experience that results in significant fear, hel
Emotional instability can take a toll on your mental health, relationships, and overall well-being. Are you struggling to manage your emotions and feel like they're getting the best of you? Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or sad for no apparent reason? In this video, we'll explo
Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event. Living with trauma can affect you well after a traumatic event or experience, and can play a big part in how you move forward in life. Trauma also isn’t something that only people who’ve been diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) ca
Our ability to sense, understand, and control emotions is known as emotional intelligence (EI) and is considered critical to human thriving. For centuries, we thought that emotions and cognition were two separate things. Today we know that the two are constantly interacting. The most relevant model
Do you find yourself closed off to others and can actively avoid them or any situation that will invoke an emotional response? Emotional detachment refers to one’s inability to connect with another emotionally or avoid doing so. With that, here are some of the most common signs. Disclaimer: This v
When we think of our health, we may think of physical health. But what about our mental health and emotional health? Emotional health should be taken just as seriously as physical health. So… how do you know if some of your physical symptoms could be a reaction to your mental well-being? How do you
