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How Child Sexual Abuse Impacts the Developing Brain and the 6 Steps You Can Take To Help Your Teen Heal From Sexual Abuse
How Child Sexual Abuse Impacts the Developing Brain (part 4 in a 5 part series) Child sexual abuse doesn’t only impact your child when it happens but can impact her into her teen years. Often times as children enter puberty old symptoms and behaviors begin to re-emerge, even if the child has had therapy…
Read MoreHow To Stop Yourself From Freezing When Triggered: 4 Steps To Take To Take To Halt You Automatic Trauma Reactions
It’s 8 o’clock in the morning and you are eating breakfast. When you woke up this morning you felt pretty good. You slept well and you’re actually in a good mood. As you pick up your fork to eat that first bite of food, your phone buzzes beside you. When you look at the screen…
Read MoreHealing & Recovery: How to Make Your Past Stop Haunting You
Is healing even possible? For so long you have carried this huge secret. You feel like there is a heavy weight on your shoulders. A Shadow that surrounds you. You’ve never told anyone or maybe your family knows but you were told not to tell anyone outside of your immediate family. Being touched makes you…
Read MoreWhat Is Mother-Daughter Sexual Abuse & 3 Tips to Cope With It
Trigger warning: This article contains very sensitive topics discussing sexual abuse. Please read at your own discretion. I have been working with trauma survivors in various capacities for over a decade but only recently have I been encountering more and more survivors of mother-daughter sexual abuse. Also known as MDSA, mother daughter sexual abuse is…
Read MoreHow Trauma Affects Memory, Why Survivor’s Don’t Come Forward, and What To Do About It.
Tw: Please note this article might make you uncomfortable or trigger you as it delves into very sensitive topics about sexual abuse. Please proceed cautiously. You wake up in a cold sweat. It’s the second time this week and it’s only Wednesday. You had“ the” dream again! The one where you’re in your old childhood…
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