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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 Stress Awareness Month 

“I’m just SO stressed out!” has crossed all of our lips in one form or another, especially over this last year. Stress is a growing epidemic in the world that we all have first hand knowledge of in what it feels like, however you may not understand exactly what stress is and the negative effects […]

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