Tag: intrusive thoughts

• Feeling Bitter & Stuck After Betrayal?

  

  If you’ve ever felt stuck in bitterness after something unjust—like betrayal, rejection, or a humiliating loss—you might relate to Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED). It’s not just sadness or fear. It’s a trauma response rooted in moral injury and injustice, often misdiagnosed as depression or PTSD.

  Liana West

  June 20, 2025

  Anxiety, Conflict

  Betrayal Trauma, emotional trauma recovery, feeling bitter, healing, healing injustice, hypnotherapy, intrusive thoughts, mental-health, moral injury, oei therapy, persistent resentment, post traumatic embitterment disorder, PTED vs PTSD, ptsd, revenge at ex, stuck in bitterness, therapy, Trauma, trauma therapy

• When Trauma Hijacks the Present and Steals Your Sense of Self

  

  Trauma can make you feel like a stranger to yourself. Intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and intense body feelings can take over the present moment. It’s hard to plan for the future when you’re just trying to feel safe. This article explains why that happens and how therapy can help you feel like yourself again.

  Liana West

  May 11, 2025

  Anxiety, Betrayal Trauma, OEI Therapy for Trauma, Relationship Trauma, The Ex, Trauma, Workplace Trauma

  body-based healing, complex PTSD, flashbacks, healing from trauma, how trauma affects brain, hypnotherapy for trauma, intrusive thoughts, losing sense of self, nervous system trauma, oei therapy, PTSD symptoms, trauma and dissociation, trauma and identity, trauma and present moment, trauma and self, trauma in the body, trauma recovery, trauma self-awareness, trauma therapy