When I talk about self-care some people are hesitant, having seen self-care reduced to simplistic, and often expensive, ideas about how we can treat ourselves. The four quadrants model was developed by Dr. Jennifer Middleton–this variation asks that we consider how we can care for ourselves in an ongoing and day to day way, but […]
Why We Do What We Do: Trauma and Stress Responses – The Four F’s
When getting to know clients, I often explore with them the ways in which they respond when they are overwhelmed, stressed, or in relation to traumatic incidents. Some helpful terms to think of these in can be survival mode or reflexes and habits, also more commonly known as the 4 F’s – Fight, Flight, Freeze, […]
April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Did you know, in addition to it being Stress awareness Month, every April is also national Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)? Every 73 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. The statistics are overwhelming, but it’s important for us to acknowledge and examine to empower survivors and educate people about who is most at risk. Each […]
My child is back in school but things still don’t feel “normal.”
If you’ve made the decision to send your child back to school (or maybe the decision was made for you), you likely assumed you would feel some sense of normalcy after the fact. After many months of NTI it seemed that sending children back to school might be the first step to feeling more like […]
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