Through psychotherapy and positive relationships, it is possible to overcome a victim's mentality and flourish.

So, you've started to notice some patterns in your life, and you're wondering why you react the way you do. Emotional habits can feel like second nature, but sometimes they're more than just quirks.

Life can sometimes feel like a maze, especially when certain behaviors become second nature. You might not realize it, but some of these reactions can actually be responses to past trauma. It's not ...

When trauma strikes, your brain isn’t asking for your opinion—it’s doing its best to keep you alive. Understanding the ...

Emotional wounds from past experiences might seem confined to your mental landscape, but medical research increasingly confirms what many health practitioners have long suspected: the burden of ...

You call your teen's name, but they don't respond. They're staring past you. You call again, louder this time. Nothing—how ...

A new study has found that even if survivors’ physical and psychological scars have healed after experiencing trauma, their bodies can still carry a biological “imprint” of the event years into the ...

Meg Josephson is a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in trauma-informed care. She is also a certified meditation teacher through the Nalanda Institute. People-pleasing is not a personality ...

These days, it's common to scroll through social media feeds and see certain "buzzy" terms in captions and on images, like "gaslighting," "golden handcuffs," "brightsiding," "parentification" and ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/2437669 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2437669 Copy URL The chief points establishing the nastic and traumatic causes of the curvatures of ...

Six new nurses joined Christus trauma center, serving 150 to 160 daily patients, with plans for further expansion ahead.