Feelings of Abandonment Causing Problems in Your Relationships: How Anxious Attachment and Other Traumas Make You Fear Being Alone and 5 Tips to Overcome This
There is a hollow feeling that comes when you feel like you’ve been abandoned. A tension or tightness in the chest or stomach may constantly linger when you are with others but when they leave, and you are alone, the hollow feeling comes right in. You don’t know which is worse, the ever present tension…
Read MoreCoping With The Postpartum Period: Understanding Postpartum Depression, Anxiety, and 5 Tips For Adjusting During This New Time
So being a new mom is not turning out like you thought it would. Oh sure when you were pregnant you heard from friends, family, and even strangers on the parenting forums that being a mom was incredibly difficult. You told yourself you would be able to handle whatever came your way and maybe you…
Read MoreThe Sexualization Of Children and How This Can Impact Your Child Sexual Abuse Survivor: 4 Tips To Help Them Stop Blaming Themselves For The Sexual Abuse They Endured
The sexualization of children is not the same as child sexual abuse and yet the lasting impacts can be just as pervasive. When we sexualize children we place them in adult roles, as opposed to seeing them as children. The sexualization of children refers to placing adult attributes on a child’s body and then assigning…
Read MoreThe Problem with the Sexualization of Girls and 3 Tips to Help Your Girls Love Their Body
The Sexualization of females often begins when they are babies. This sexualization can, and often does, have the lasting impacts of making girls and women feel a lot of shame around their bodies and fear of men. Sexualization is not the same as sexual abuse, where someone is forcing/coercing a child (or someone whose considerably…
Read MoreHow 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…
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