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
The signs of unhealed trauma could include: always choosing toxic relationships or difficult people, always finding problems in relationships, difficulties with trusting others, finding emotional intimacy or physical intimacy, and being self-sabotaging. Unhealed trauma can start as early as childhoo
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 ever found yourself in a situation where past experiences suddenly come rushing back, leaving you overwhelmed and anxious? This could be a sign of lingering trauma. Trauma is something that many of us struggle to navigate, so it's essential to develop self-awareness to ensure our emotional
Traumatic events can happen to everyone. It’s common. According to the National Center for PTSD, 7-8% of the U.S. population will have PTSD at some point in their lives. Trauma is not a disorder. It is an emotional response to an unexpected and terrible event where you felt that your physical safety
Your childhood is when you are supposed to have the best time of your life. In developmental psychology, your childhood is when it determines how you relate to others as you get older. How you were treated as a child will affect your relationships with others. What happens when you or someone experi
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
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
If left untreated, PTSD from any trauma is unlikely to disappear, and it is likely to cause chronic pain, depression, substance use, and sleep problems that impair a person's ability to work and interact with others. Some symptoms of untreated PTSD could include: resisting positive change, needing e
Have you ever thought someone liked you? Only to find they’d pull away right when you were emotionally connecting? Maybe they were giving you mixed signals. Or maybe you have a hunch they might be afraid of rejection. Here are a few common signs someone likes you but is afraid of rejection. Writer:
Are you wondering if someone wants to date you? Maybe you’ve been talking to them for a while, but you can’t quite tell if they like you like you. Do they want to ask you out? Do they want you to ask them out? Here are six signs someone wants to date you. Writer: Michal Mitchell Script Editor & Man
Are you having trouble determining if your crush likes you back? Or maybe you’re dating someone, but aren’t quite sure if they genuinely like you. There are some interesting signs like the eye brow flash that suggests they like you, because it's a subconscious behaviour. Writer: Michal Mitchell Sc
