Tag: mental-health
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Looking for Answers From Your Therapist? It Might Be Trauma
Have you ever been in therapy and just want your therapist to tell you what to do? If you’ve ever felt blocked, this is a survival response. Trauma blocks access to your decision-making brain. This article explains what’s really happening and why feeling stuck in sessions is common after trauma.
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Does Hypnosis REALLY Rewire Your BRAIN Like Magic?
Hypnosis isn’t just relaxation—it changes how your brain processes thoughts, habits, and emotional patterns. This article explains how hypnosis helps rewire the brain for less anxiety, more focus, and long-term behavior change by working directly with the subconscious.
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Trauma’s Surprising Effect on Motivation
If you struggle to finish simple tasks or feel unmotivated, it might not be a problem with discipline. Trauma—big T, or even small t—can overwhelm the brain and make even simple to-do tasks feel impossible. This article explains how trauma affects motivation and why it’s not a character flaw, but a nervous system issue.
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How Childhood Trauma Keeps Showing Up
Betrayal and abandonment trauma often leave behind deep inner child wounds. These wounds aren’t just memories—they shape how you feel, react, and relate to others today. This article explains how early experiences of being hurt, left out or left behind create lasting emotional pain and patterns that can follow you into adulthood.
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Why Betrayal Trauma Makes You Expect the Worst
Betrayal trauma rewires your brain to expect danger, causing hypervigilance, distrust, and emotional turmoil. This trauma response keeps you on edge, scanning for threats even when safe. Healing requires rebuilding trust slowly, soothing your nervous system, and honoring your instincts. You’re not broken—your sensitivity is a survival skill guiding your recovery journey and growth.
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Trauma’s Hidden Impact on Your Relationships
Trauma doesn’t just affect your past—it often shows up in your relationships. Let’s explore how trauma can shape connection, trust, and communication patterns, and why many people repeat painful relationship cycles without realizing trauma is the cause.
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How Breakups Can Affect the Brain—Especially After Childhood Trauma
Romantic breakups can do more than break your heart—they can change your brain. Research shows that people with childhood trauma who go through painful breakups may have smaller hippocampus sizes, a part of the brain involved in memory and emotion. This article explores how trauma compounds over time and affects the brain.
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Why Trauma Makes Boundaries So Hard
People who’ve experienced trauma often struggle with setting boundaries. It’s not about being weak—it’s about how trauma rewires the brain and body. This article explains why saying no, speaking up, or protecting your space can feel unsafe, confusing, or even impossible after trauma.
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Can You REALLY Stay With a Cheating Partner?
Here are four key questions that you can ask after betrayal to reveal hidden unhappiness in relationships. If you answer “no” to all of them, your relationship may be more disconnected than you realize. This article explores emotional safety, conflict style, curiosity, and accountability—core foundations of love that you will need to rebuild a relationship…
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Why Betrayal Trauma Can Lead to Weight Gain
Often weight gain after betrayal isn’t about food, exercise, or willpower. It’s a trauma response. Your body may be trying to protect you, stay hidden, or calm overwhelming emotions. This article explains how betrayal trauma can lead to weight changes and why it’s not just about habits—it’s about what is going on in your brain.
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