How can EDMR help you? This article explains How EMDR therapy works. If your therapist has just recommended EMDR therapy as a mental health treatment option for dealing with abuse or trauma, you're probably wondering, "What the heck is that?" Let's find out how EMDR therapy works. EMDR is short for Eye Movement Desensitizing Reprocessing, and this type of therapy can help you heal from hurtful past experiences, so you can rewire your brain, move on and find happiness. Basically, EMDR is ...read more
How To Know If You’re Suffering From ‘Betrayal Trauma’
Being Cheated on might be affecting you more than you know. When you have been deeply hurt by someone who is supposed to love and protect you, it is called betrayal trauma. Betrayal can manifest in many different ways: physically, emotionally, or spiritually. When you are betrayed by a someone you trust, a cascade of feelings begin to unravel and your experiences with that person are forever altered. Who you thought the person was is now challenged with the reality of ...read more
How To Know When PTSD Is Dangerous
A good diagnosis will get you the right help to manage your symptoms and know when PTSD is dangerous. Being diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) can be helpful information to frame treatment and gain understanding and learn tools to manage your symptoms. Unlike other forms of mental illness, the symptoms of PTSD are caused by external events or situations which are done to the person rather than from an internal source. If you have PTSD and are not being treated, that is ...read more
5 Little Ways A Strong Woman Stands Up For Herself EVERY Day
A strong woman stands up for herself? What does that even mean? Does it mean that I suck it up and be tough like the guys? Does it mean I support my husband no matter what mood he is in? Does it mean I share my truth no matter what? Our culture and personal influences are the first to define the answer to the statement: a strong woman stands up for herself and here’s how... As we mature and contemplate the question, it becomes clear that however we answer it, it is a personal decision. ...read more
Living With PTSD: What To Do When You Are Triggered
Imagine reliving a stressful situation over and over again with no resolution. It would feel pretty overwhelming every time a similar experience happened. Below you'll find out what to do when you are triggered... For example, a 5-year-old child who witnessed yelling in her home may dissociate her fear in the moment to survive the scary scene. If this scene happens multiple times in a child’s life they can develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This type of coping is adaptive as a child but ...read more
Betrayal Hurt Crazy To Healing & Being Your Best Self
Hello, It's been a while since my last blog article, this one deals with betrayal trauma. You may have wondered what happened to my writing? Well, I have been incubating new ideas and birthing a office in Seattle. Therapists are also human and go through life the same as anyone else. I have experienced challenges and blessings since my last article. Close family members have passed on to the next life, my first grand baby was born, relationship challenges have been exposed, and I have learned. ...read more
Ashley Madison Hack; First Steps In Healing Your Relationship
As a follow up to the Ashley Madison Article I posted yesterday, Here is another article from Mari Lee, LMFT, CSAT on how to heal after the Hack. In the aftermath of the Ashley Madison hack, my therapy center has been blowing up with calls and emails from individuals and couples who are afraid, ashamed, and angry. These hurting people are asking for help in moving through the painful discovery or disclosure sharing that their relationship has been impacted by deceptive sexual choices, ...read more
Help! The Ashley Madison Hack Will Ruin My Life
By now most of the world has heard about the Ashley Madison website hack. Ashley Madison's website slogan is, Life is short, have an affair. AM is not a traditional dating website, instead it caters to married people and people in relationships interested in having a secret affair. With over 37 million members, the company prides themselves on keeping their client's identity and information confidential through top notch data security. However, this may be changing soon as the hackers are ...read more
Married To A Sex Addict? 14 Signs That They Are Recovering
Know if the sex addict in your life is on the road to recovery If you are reading this article, you are most likely a concerned person who cares about a sex addict and wants what is best for them. I applaud you. You are a caring and giving person who has the best interest of the sex addict in mind. You have empathy or the ability to feel and understand what another human being is going through. I challenge you to use these qualities to care for yourself as much as you care for your ...read more
10 tips to create a true emotional connection with your partner
As I was standing in line waiting, a man was standing nearby. He was talking to his wife on the phone trying to figure out her order. His voice was loud, back and forth the conversation went, he trying to get her order correct and growing more frustrated with each interchange of the conversation. The conversation dragged on for what seemed like hours to me. The tone of his voice sent me into major anxiety and I wanted to run out of the store. It took all the strength I could muster to wait for ...read more
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