PTSD

The Good News About Trauma Recovery

Is there good news with trauma? Actually, yes.     The largest meta-analysis to date on trauma recovery (looking at data from over 11,000 relevant medical studies) suggests that the best long term recovery after trauma is simply talking about it, no medication required.   Published in JAMA Psychiatry on June 12, 2019, reasearchers looked at direct comparisons between talk therapy (psychotherapy) and drug therapy (pharmacological treatments) in patients with PTSD. They found that in the long term, talk therapy helped more, being slightly superior to drug therapy both immediately following treatment and in long term follow up. The studies …

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Trauma Changes The Health Of Your Body, But It’s Reversible

A recent study shows what we can already *feel*… …that trauma in childhood affects our physical health as an adult.   Our cells, organs, tissues, physical body holds on to the effects of emotional trauma and this energetic tension literally changes how our body is able to function. I’ve written previous blog posts highlighting this, how our body’s health is an expression of our emotional well being, in articles such as:   Trauma Increases Headache Risk 4-Fold Childhood Trauma Increases Risk Of Self Harm. Here’s Help 2 New Treatments For PTSD You Can Use Right Now To Feel Immediatley Better. …

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Childhood Trauma Affects Your Adult Health. But It Doesn’t Have To.

A new study shows what we can already *feel*… …that trauma in childhood affects our physical health as an adult.   Our cells, organs, tissues, physical body holds on to the effects of emotional trauma and this energetic tension literally changes how our body is able to function. I’ve written previous blog posts highlighting this, how our body’s health is an expression of our emotional well being, in articles such as:   Trauma Increases Headache Risk 4-Fold 2 New Treatments For PTSD You Can Use Right Now To Feel Immediatley Better. A New Way To Measure Stress… Your Hair Resolving …

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2 New Treatments For PTSD You Can Use Right Now To Feel Immediatley Better.

    I’m so encouraged by the fact that there is so much medical research lately on trauma recovery.   I’m excited to share two of these awesome new studies with you today, so that you can start to use these techniques right this very moment for support and relief.   The first study comes from research done on combat-related PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and insomnia on veterans. This is the first randomized controlled medical study comparing mantram therapy as a treatment for PTSD. Results from this study were published in the American Journal of Psychiatry on June 20, …

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A New Way To Measure Stress… Your Hair

  We all know someone’s who’s hair has literally seemed to turn grey overnight from stress… …it’s a very real thing.   I know during the time when, years ago, my kids and I were unexpectedly abandoned by my then-husband who disappeared one night (and the stressful subsequent divorce that ensued) I got my fair share of grays that seemed to pop up daily and have remained in place right now, even 5+ years later. We also know during times of chronic stress, hair can become markedly thinner, falling out strand by strand or in clumps, even clogging your shower …

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The Healing Process Of Grief

Grief after experiencing a sudden loss or unexpected change in circumstance can knock your feet right out from under you.   Whether from the death of a loved one, a trauma, a job loss or divorce, severe illness, surgery, or any other unexpected change, it can be hard to endure… …both emotionally and physically exhausting. But it can also make room for growth. For survival, for strength, and ultimately, for a new you to emerge. Even if you are forced to become a new version of you that you never even wanted to be… …the process of grief is actually …

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Childhood Trauma Increases Risk Of Self Harm. Here’s Help.

  Children who are maltreated in any way — physically, sexually or emotionally — are more likely to inflict self injury to their body later in life.   And it’s important to note, if your child has suffered any of these types of traumas — even if they are not depressed or suicidal — this study still applies. Researchers found that children who were maltreated but had no suicidal ideation were still over three times more likely to harm themselves as peers who were not abused, a new study published Nov 28, 2017 in Lancet Psychiatry finds. So be kind …

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