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The Importance of Mind-Body Work for Treating Grief - by Michael Roth- How Living In Survival Mode Blocks Our Emotions - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2011 from Trudy-Ann EwanGoing into survival mode is not often a conscious choice. Individuals who live their life in survival mode are oftentimes filled with bitterness, resentment and anger. It’s not just that they haven’t healed themselves of past hurts. Rather individuals tend to automatically go into survival ...
Views: 15312(2 votes) - EFT for PTSD : Effective Treatment For Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Rob NelsonPTSD begins with a traumatic interruption of our experience of reality. Our usual sense of safety and well-being are violated and replaced by intense feelings of fear, horror and helplessness, overwhelming whatever coping strategies we’ve developed for everyday stress. Whether this is the ...
Views: 10180(2 votes) - Overcoming Fears of Earthquakes and Other Natural Disasters - by Submitted on May 03, 2011 from Janis EricsonIndividuals who live on or around major fault lines are wise to keep in mind the possibility of an earthquake, and take appropriate precautions. But if the fear of a potential quake that is designed to serve as a warning becomes an obsessive phobia, an individual should seek help from a ...
Views: 9194(1 vote) - Why Do We Suffer? Are You Suffering? Then You May Need to Rejoice! - by Submitted on Oct 13, 2009 from Dr. Shirley Cheng, Blind Author with VisionWhy do people have to suffer? Do some people simply have bad luck or is there a good reason why we suffer? Why do we all get sick, grow old, and die? And is all suffering really bad, or is it actually a blessing in disguise, somehow? Here, I will outline some of the reasons why we ...
Views: 9058(8 votes) - Common Reactions to Psychological Trauma: Understanding Avoidance and Other Reactions - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2009 from Susanne DillmannReactions to trauma follow a cyclical and often perpetual pattern, flowing from intrusive and arousal to avoidance reactions. Intrusive and arousal reactions bring the traumatic experience into one’s awareness. But being exposed to elements of the trauma is frightening, overwhelming, terrifying ...
Views: 7821(2 votes) - Coping With Injustice - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2012 from Jay Tow, M. S. Counselor, Life Management and Relationship CoachAn article by Jay Tow, M.S., Certified Sexologist “It’s just not fair.” “How can they do that to me?” “Don’t they care how this affects me?” “This always happens to me. Why can’t I catch a break?” Have you ever said anything like the quotes above? I don’t think anyone goes ...
Views: 7308 - 5 Element Acupuncture: A Recovery from Trauma - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Laura SantiI wanted to share one of my patient’s stories with you to illustrate the potential of 5 Element Acupuncture in healing the mind and spirit after mental and physical trauma. I asked “Kathy” if I could use her story because it illustrates almost the complete array of both the illnesses of the ...
Views: 6715(7 votes) - Hypnosis aids a stroke victim - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2011 from Nicholas PollakNICHOLAS D. POLLAK Clinical Hypnotherapist Certified Master Hypnotist Handwriting Analyst 310.204.3321 www.hypnotherapy4you.net nickpollak@hypnotherapy4you.net Just recently I went on a three day cruise with my wife to attend her high school reunion. While there I talked with many ...
Views: 6504(1 vote) - ***Shamanic Soul Retrieval | Effective Holistic PTSD Treatment - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2013 from Dean Taraborelli“It is estimated that 70% of adults in the United States will experience one or more traumatic events in their lives, and 20% will go on to develop PTSD”1 For individuals who suffer from PTSD and other psychological disorders, conventional treatment methods may not be ...
Views: 5895(1 vote) - ***12 Signs that you may be involved in a codependent relationship - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2013 from Dean TaraborelliAre you worried that you may be involved in a codependent relationship? You are not alone. Most people associate codependency with a partner who has an alcohol and substance abuse addiction, but there are other situations that can foster a codependent relationship. Following ...
Views: 5642(4 votes) - Leave me alone! I don't want to express my Feelings. - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2011 from Nil CelenIt's a common belief that you should express your feelings and talk about them after a serious problem or a trauma. But, do you really want to talk about them? Can't you just keep your feelings to yourself? Silence is as healthy as sharing. If you choose silence people should respect to that. ...
Views: 5624(2 votes) - A Blind and Physically Disabled Gal...Happy? - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2009 from Dr. Shirley Cheng, Blind Author with VisionOf all your achievements, what are you most proud of? That was what a reporter wanted to know while she interviewed me for a newspaper feature. All the major accomplishments I've achieved in my twenty-five years swam through my head at lightning speed. Which is my proudest achievement? I ...
Views: 5388(16 votes) - Where is Your Life Headed? - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2009 from Danish AhmedHi there everyone!! I remember sitting in a subway car on my way home from grade nine. I had an 88% average and I was making good money at my job, yet I was depressed out of my mind. I wasn't in a rush to get home -- I would stay on the subway for hours, not really caring about the day, ...
Views: 5307(10 votes) - How To Resolve the Guilt of the Suicide Survivor - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2010 from Ellen GerstNo one can know the depth of despair to which a person may sink upon contemplation of suicide. Possibly, the black hole in which one finds him/herself gets deeper and darker as the days go by. Soon, even the smallest sliver of light is blocked from view. And then -- instead of being frightening ...
Views: 5122(5 votes) - ***Non 12 Step Addiction Treatment - Empowering our Young Adults - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2016 from Dean TaraborelliWhen we imagine our children becoming addicted to drugs we often envision dimly lit alleys filled with questionable characters persuading our impressionable children to smoke, snort, or even shoot illicit street drugs. However, the most realistic threat to our children’s sobriety is not in the ...
Views: 5054(1 vote) - ***Holistic and Energy Psychology Treatments for PTSD - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2013 from Dean TaraborelliPsychological trauma can change the course of a person’s life and in some cases leave devastating life-long scars. Trauma can come from any situation that poses a threat to personal safety or sense of wellbeing. The events can be real or perceived; trauma is any event that the psyche can’t ...
Views: 4997(1 vote) - ***Holistic addiction treatment - Do you sabotage your recovery? - by Submitted on Sep 20, 2013 from Dean TaraborelliAre you sabotaging your own recovery? How many times have you been in rehabilitation only to relapse back into the madness that you swore you would leave behind? You want to recover. You want to lead a recovered life, but in the end, the result is always the same. You sabotage yourself, your ...
Views: 4948(1 vote) - The 3 Ways Fears and Phobias Can Start - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2010 from Leslie MeehanMost fears or phobias can be traced back to a root cause. These root causes generally fall into three main categories based on what created the original fear. In this article you will learn the three ways in which a fear or phobia can start which should help you to understand more about how your ...
Views: 4730(1 vote) - Common Uses of Childhood Regression Therapy - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2010 from Adele Tartaglia INSTANT SUBCONSCIOUS REPROGRAMMING The Life Management Center 480/220-2089 eztherapy@gmail.comExcerpted from Soul Talk: Rescripting Karmic Contracts, 2008, Adele Tartaglia In this article I shall describe new processing techniques to handle regression memories that trigger past life traumas in reference to child therapy. Using these processes Increases the rate of Spontaneous Healing ...
Views: 4683 - Matter is Not Solid, Time is Not Linear, Death is Not the End - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2009 from JD MessingerOne might think that this article is targeted at spiritual seekers, but you would be wrong. What do I mean when I say matter is not solid, time is not linear and death is not the end, and what does this have to do with your life, business and health? If you have the time, confidence, courage and ...
Views: 4490(6 votes) - PARENTS WITH PERSONALITY DISORDERS Aka: Growing Up With Crazy - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2014 from Roni Weisberg-RossHow would you know if you were the only sane person in an insane asylum? Now imagine yourself as a child with no prior knowledge of what is sane or normal. How would a child know if they were a sane person in a family with disturbed parents? A significant part of the trauma of growing up ...
Views: 4472(1 vote) - ***Holistic Addiction Treatment–Do your beliefs sabotage your recovery? - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2016 from Dean TaraborelliWhat role do your beliefs play in your ability to completely recover? Do your beliefs disempower you? A belief is a perception, conviction, or opinion that you hold about yourself, a situation, event, or others. Beliefs are not necessarily true or fact-based, however, they are something we ...
Views: 4409 - ***What are the signs of C-PTSD? - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2016 from Dean TaraborelliDo you or someone you know suffer from C-PTSD? Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or C-PTSD, commonly co-occurs with addiction. C-PTSD is a complicated trauma reaction caused by enduring extreme stress over a prolonged period of time. Its frequent companion, addiction, typically evolves ...
Views: 4372 - Counselling for Road Accident Trauma - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from Bay WhitakerCounselling for Road Accident Trauma After a road traffic accident people frequently experience problems such as anxiety, tearfulness, short-temper, difficulties sleeping. These and similar issues can stay with people for a long time after the accident. This can be an indication of ...
Views: 4299 - The Anger Contract - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2011 from Dan L. HaysThis Anger Contract was my response to the events chronicled in my previous post, "The Betrayal." A bogus Intervention had been done to me, and had forced me to get in touch with deep anger that I had been trying to release for several years. I knew I needed to do something radical to handle ...
Views: 4280(2 votes) - Toxic Shame: What Is Toxic Shame? - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2013 from Oliver JR CooperThere is said to be two types of shame. One is described as normal and healthy and the other is said to be abnormal and dysfunctional. Healthy Shame This shame is part of having a healthy conscience; with certain behaviours and actions being kept in check by this feeling. And when ones ...
Views: 4224(2 votes) - Death Anniversaries; Inspirational and Amazing Stories - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2010 from Stephanie AltThe approach and actual anniversary day of the death of someone loved and lost, brings to the surface an unsettling sea of emotions. As a therapist and life coach who provides bereavement and grief counseling, and someone who has experienced death at an early age, understanding grieving and loss ...
Views: 4148(2 votes) - How Subconscious Reprogramming Can Eliminate Psychological Trauma - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2012 from Greg FrostSubconscious Reprogramming refers to the process of renewing your unconscious mind through repeated exposure to new thoughts, ideas, habits and images. You can gain a lot when you engage consciously in the process. You can easily eliminate psychological trauma when you take time to engage in the ...
Views: 4042 - Luck Or Life - When Bad Things Happen to Good People - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2010 from Judy WrightErnest Hemingway once said: "The world breaks everyone. and afterward,many are strong in the broken places." When we are going through adversity, it is not always possible to believe that everyone suffers loss and heartache. It feels and acts very personal when bad luck and rotten life ...
Views: 3891(1 vote) - Managing Sadness and Depression - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2010 from Jessica Blalock, Ph.D.Everyone has felt sad or down at some time in their life as a result of life events such as a move to another city, loss of a job, medical reasons, etc. This is a normal part of life and it happens to all of us. Everyone has felt sad or down at some time in their life as a result of life ...
Views: 3764(1 vote) - The EFT Movie Technique - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2009 from Karl DawsonNewcomers to EFT soon realise, as more experienced practitioners have before them, the wonderful results available when using The Movie Technique. As you watch Gary Craig work with clients throughout the DVD sets, we rarely witness a session that does not contain a wonderful example of its ...
Views: 3751(21 votes) - I Lost My Best Friend To Breast Cancer - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2012 from Nathan DanielsI know I'm not alone in the fact that I've lost someone very special to breast cancer, and I'm sure I'm not alone in the fact that it still hurts after nearly twenty years. My mom passed away in 1993, a victim of this horrible disease, and getting over her death has taken most of my adult life. ...
Views: 3651(1 vote) - The conscious and the subconscious. - by Submitted on Dec 22, 2009 from David ThompsonThe conscious and the subconscious mind. What are they and why do we have them? The word conscious by definition is the awareness of one's own environment,sensations and thoughts. But what is the subconscious? It is the store house of our lives. It is the part of the mind that files our ...
Views: 3562(8 votes) - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment and Cure - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2014 from Virgil PaunPost Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental and emotional condition that can develop following a traumatic event so overwhelming and frightening that the mind and body are in shock. Soldiers in military combat, natural disasters, kidnapping, rape, sexual abuse or living in an alcoholic home… to ...
Views: 3526(1 vote) - How to Empower the Bullied Child - by Submitted on May 28, 2010 from Marc LernerIn today’s news, there is a terrible phenomenon that is happening too often in a conscious society. Bullied youth are committing suicide. We have to teach coping skills to empower our youth to deal with stress. The reaction to stress is determined by how it is interpreted. Being able to control ...
Views: 3490(2 votes) - ***Wholeness: A Bio-energetic Self-guided Meditation - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2011 from Janet NestorFrom Pathways to Wholeness, p. 85-86 Recorded for you at www.mindfulpathways.com I created this exercise for my own personal healing journey, and share various versions of it with my clients on a regular basis. The exercise can be practiced daily. If we have physical health issues or any ...
Views: 3482(15 votes) - What Can Past Life Regression Do for Us? - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2010 from Adele Tartaglia INSTANT SUBCONSCIOUS REPROGRAMMING The Life Management Center 480/220-2089 eztherapy@gmail.comPart I : How Do Past and Parallel Lives Influence Current Life Workshop Excerpted from Soul Talk: Rescripting Karmic Contracts, 2008, Adele Tartaglia Regression therapy brings to light the body of experiences the soul has traversed throughout its eternal life journey as an incarnated being. ...
Views: 3443(1 vote) - ***Matrix Reimprinting - Rewrite your Past and Transform your Future - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2010 from Karl DawsonOver the last few decades a group of ‘super-techniques’ have emerged and are increasingly gaining in popularity. Coming under the umbrella term of ‘Energy Psychology’, these techniques engage the mind and body simultaneously, and create rapid personal transformation on both a physical and ...
Views: 3382(5 votes) - Grief is a Journey Not a Destination - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2013 from Robert CrutchfieldWhen someone close to us dies many companies will give you a few days off with pay to recover. Much of the rest of our society seems to believe that grief is something very temporary. If only it were that simple or easy. Grief is not about forgetting or “ getting over it. “ It is about learning ...
Views: 3381 - Holding on to Pain - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2012 from Linda DieffenbachYesterday, I caught the tail end of a conversation that got me thinking about pain, and how attached many of us our to our pain. Pain is a valuable tool, as its presence alerts us to something that is in need of attention and healing, but what happens when we become so used to the pain that ...
Views: 3333 - Homeopathy for Past Birth Trauma - by Submitted on May 12, 2011 from Renita HerrmannSince working with mothers and children in homeopathy, I’ve come across a large group of people that have experienced birth trauma, either as the mother or child. Often what affects one will affect the other. In her book, Origins, Annie Paul describes monitoring of the pregnant mothers' physical ...
Views: 3326(2 votes) - PTSD - And Didn't Know it! - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2011 from Dan L. HaysI spent a lot of time walking around Houston in the middle '80s with many of the symptoms of PTSD, and didn't know it. I was having flashbacks - of occurrences I didn't remember. I felt like the man in the Bourne Identity with amnesia, who was getting glimpses of his past - a past he could not ...
Views: 3255(8 votes) - SELF ABUSE - I Hurt Therefore I Am - by Submitted on May 25, 2012 from Roni Weisberg-RossHow can I hurt myself? Let me count the ways. But first let me distinguish between hurting myself and abusing myself. Hurting myself - self-harm is a term commonly used for physically abusing oneself by cutting, self inflicting blows, pulling out hair (Trichotillomania) skin or nails, ...
Views: 3235(1 vote) - Reasons Why Soldiers Have Difficulty Adjusting to a Civilian Lifestyle After Serving Their Country - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2011 from Gayle Joplin Hall“The hardest part, by far, is to make the bad pictures go away. In war time, the world is one big long horror movie, image after image. If this is anything like Vietnam, I’m in for a lifetime of wee-hour creeps.” – Tim O’Brien, Vietnam Veteran. Assimilating back into an everyday routine is ...
Views: 3206(1 vote) - Writing Helped Save My Life - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2012 from Nathan DanielsI have been fighting a substantial list of mental disorders for twenty years, including Agoraphobia, Borderline Personality Disorder, Panic Attacks, Social Anxiety, etc. All of these ailments can be challenging, but for the most part, I've lived a normal life. This year, however, I realized I ...
Views: 3197(2 votes) - Healing Spiritual Shame - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2012 from Ken ThomAs I’ve previously stated, shame significantly impacts our spirituality. This is usually the most challenging area for shame-based people. Spirituality is found deep within our core: the deepest level that humans operate from. The ability to live in peace and harmony is a function of our ...
Views: 3178(2 votes) - What Is Spasticity? An Introduction Common Causes Signs Effects With Spasticity Symptoms and Guide for Care - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2017 from Leon EdwardWhat Is Spasticity? Derived from the Greek word "spastos", which means pulling or drawing, spasticity is a sudden, involuntary increase in both muscle tension and tone that limits overall movement. People who suffer from spasticity struggle to maintain normal posture and may hunch forward due ...
Views: 3171 - Meaning & Suffering - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2010 from Rev. Sheri HellerMy experiences as a psychotherapist and spiritual counselor have made it evident to me that we all seek to discern a deeper meaning in our human existence by connecting with a higher spiritual sense of life, on personal and collective levels. There are universal questions and concerns that ...
Views: 3147 - Facing Guilt in Your Past - by Submitted on May 08, 2011 from Karen KleinwortRIDDING YOURSELF OF SHAME FROM YOUR PAST It’s only human to make mistakes, and we all have done things of which we’re not proud. Although time can blur the memory and alleviate the pain of stressful incidents from our past, often it’s not a simple task to overcome the guilt that stems from ...
Views: 3062(2 votes) - Teenagers and Self Mutilation: The Facts - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2011 from Dore' FrancesTeenagers and Self Mutilation: The Facts Self-mutilation affects nearly one percent of people in the U.S. Teenagers are particularly susceptible to self-mutilation, with girls being four times more likely to self harm than boys. Over ten percent of teenagers are thought to have at least ...
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