Want to get rid of emotional baggage? Emotive Journaling ™ is self-therapy to get rid of emotional baggage from a difficult childhood, past relationships, bad work experiences or just stressful times. A NATURAL WAY TO HEAL EMOTIONALLY Imagine this. Your 1st grader comes to you all Read More →
How to really recover from trauma and stress
Trying to put painful or traumatic memories out of your mind only stores them in a different part of your brain allowing them to resurface later. Have you ever tried to put one of your angry, sad, scary, embarrassing, shameful, rejected or stressful memories 'out of your mind' only to Read More →
PTSD without TRAUMA – How Common Stresses Can Give You PTSD
SCRATCHES IN YOUR TEFLON - Stressful events that aren't traumas by themselves can add up and give you posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Stressful events - like a divorce or breakup, getting fired, financial or legal problems, sexual harassment, having a miscarriage, having a serious Read More →
Premenstrual Syndrome? You may really have PTSD
Recent research shows that trauma and PTSD can cause severe premenstrual syndrome. If you have really bad PMS (premenstrual syndrome) you may actually have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Women with PTSD are 7x more likely to have a severe form of PMS called Premenstrual Read More →
7 REASONS TO GET RID OF YOUR PTSD FOR GOOD
When you have a physical wound you do whatever-it-takes to get it to fully heal. Its just as important for you to do whatever-it-takes to get your PTSD wound to fully heal. PTSD doubles your risk of multiple sclerosis, shrinks part of your brain and sabotages your career - but with some Read More →
A SIMPLE EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE SELF-TEST
Do you have problems with ANGER, FEARS, SADNESS, OBSESSIONS or COMPULSIONS? Do a simple exercise to find out if emotional baggage is subconsciously causing your problems. Think of an issue that is interfering with your life right now. This may be anger, sadness, anxiety, an Read More →
ANGER MANAGEMENT 101: Your anger is either coming from your present, your past or your present amplified by your past.
You are standing in line at Starbucks to get your morning coffee and a guy in a blue shirt comes up, cuts in front of you in line and then, for no reason, he stomps on your toe as hard as he can. All of a sudden your heart rate zooms up from 70 to 140 beats per minute as the Read More →
Stress management 2.0: Simple ways to stop stressing
Your body and brain were designed to handle short bursts of stress to help you get away from lions and tigers and bears. Once you are safe your stress response is supposed to go back down to its 0 baseline. When you are chronically stressed and especially when your stress response never Read More →
If You Can Make It Worse You Can Make It Better.
The first law of emotional dynamics is: If you can make it worse you can make it better. So it's really good news if just remembering a panic attack makes you anxious, if thinking about an old hurt makes you depressed, if recalling a past insult gets your blood boiling. This is because, Read More →
The Strangers Within You – Your Emotional and Body Brains
So how can you have emotional reactions that don’t make sense to you, that don’t seem to be under your control? To understand this you have to understand how your brain is wired. Your brain can be divided into 3 parts. Make a fist with your right hand, then cover your fist with your Read More →