Building a Resilient Brain After Loss for Long-Term Healing
This article by Dr. Kate Truitt addresses building a resilient brain after loss and provides a wealth of tools for long-term healing.
Why Relationships Suddenly Change After Loss
Have you ever felt like things suddenly changed with a friend or family member after a significant loss? I delve into why relationships suddenly change after loss.
Grief and Healing: Leveraging the Brain’s Power for Growth
For many, the mere mention of grief summons images of darkness and pain. But what if our response to grief could be reframed? What if this emotion, with its stifling weight, could be transformed into a vehicle for growth?
Navigating Trauma: How to Build Your Emotional Safe Space
Trauma impacts our lives and affects us in countless ways. You have the power to create your emotional safe space and create healing from within.
Stop Shame and Take Your Power Back
It is important for us to understand where the deeply painful emotional experiences of shame originate, because in the acknowledgement of their roots we find opportunities for recovery and healing.
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Understanding and Healing
Rejection is difficult for anyone to experience, but some people undergo it with much greater intensity than most others. If that is the case for you, it may be that you are experiencing what is known as rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD).
Wake Up on the Right Side of the Bed Using Neuroplasticity
Waking up on the wrong side of the bed is a real thing. But we have the power of neuroplasticity on our side. Because of our brains are malleable, we have an opportunity to make changes to our neural connections that can help us experience a good night of restful sleep.
Challenging Difficult Thoughts to Create Personal Empowerment
Anytime you notice that your brain is beating you up to keep you “safe,” take a moment for challenging difficult thoughts to find kinder ways of getting safe.
Compassionately Leaning into Failure to Create Success
Failure can hurt—our egos and self-brain often have a hard time dealing with it, but failure has helped us learn and grow since the earliest days of our lives.
Breaking Unhealthy Habits: Change Through Finding Purpose
Finding our purpose significantly increases the ease with which we are able to create sustainable change. It helps us more readily link into new behaviors that align with our desire to live our purpose.
Shame and Self Judgment Opportunities for Self-Healing
Shame is awful to experience, whether we are being shamed by others or shaming ourselves, but as humans we are hard-wired to experience feelings of shame. Learn about the opportunities for self-healing in shame and self-judgment.
Thriving Through Pain
The experiences of physical pain and psychological trauma go hand-in-hand. In order to create empowered change and self-awareness around chronic pain, we need to explore the connection between the mind and body.