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Not Alone with Your ACEs

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:March 1, 2016
  • Post category:Trauma Effects, PTSD

A large majority of people have had Adverse Childhood Experiences, which directly affect our health.

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Name Memories Without Words

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:August 2, 2015
  • Post category:Trauma Effects, PTSD

Flashbacks to preverbal memories are intense, all-consuming, boundaryless.

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Triggered! Now What?

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:October 2, 2014
  • Post category:Trauma Effects, PTSD

Suddenly we are defiantly thirteen, or playfully four, or speechlessly afraid when we would prefer to be competent adults.

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Rest at Sleep’s Threshold

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:July 2, 2014
  • Post category:Trauma Effects, PTSD

Whether you sleep or not, night can be a time for rest, contemplation, and listening inside.

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Exit Emergency Mode

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:February 1, 2014
  • Post category:Trauma Effects, PTSD

What if this problem is already solved?

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Relax For Your Life

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:November 2, 2013
  • Post category:Trauma Effects, PTSD

Relaxation is surrender, not to someone else, but to your present truth.

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Effects of Sexual Assault

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:July 2, 2013
  • Post category:Trauma Effects, PTSD

Survivors face denial, hostility, and pressure to consider themselves less important than the perpetrator.

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Safety in Your Bones

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:March 2, 2012
  • Post category:Trauma Effects, PTSD

Safety is an internal experience, a skill to be learned and a choice to be made.

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Frozen! Thaw from Surrender

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:August 2, 2011
  • Post category:Trauma Effects, PTSD

When you give yourself full permission to feel helpless and frozen, it paradoxically creates space for healing and effective action.

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Remember at Your Own Pace

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:February 2, 2011
  • Post category:Trauma Effects, PTSD

Trauma is overwhelming, but healing doesn't have to be.

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