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Post-Traumatic Growth Evidence: How Do You Know?

Post-Traumatic Growth Evidence: How Do You Know?

What is the evidence of post-traumatic growth? Your trauma now allows you to see life differently and bounce beyond the old you. You’ve grown and changed for the better. You are starting to realize that, along with the pain and distress, came something life-changing and new. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...

What EXACTLY Is Somatic Psychotherapy? What to Expect.

What EXACTLY Is Somatic Psychotherapy? What to Expect.

Somatic Psychotherapy was developed through various contributions, such as Gestalt Therapy, Dreambody Work, Authentic Movement and others. It remains one of the central teaching modalities of the Somatic Psychology Department at Naropa University. This method attempts to bring awareness to feelings, movements, sensations, etc., as an attempt to restore expressive movement.

Complex PTSD Nightmares: What Do They Mean?

Complex PTSD Nightmares: What Do They Mean?

Complex PTSD nightmares persist, coming between you and your health as well as you and your relationships. And no doubt, you want to be free of them. To find relief, it is important to understand what these nightmares are trying to tell you.

How to Find an EMDR Therapist and What to Expect

How to Find an EMDR Therapist and What to Expect

An EMDR therapist primary goal is to help you cope with trauma symptoms and overwhelming emotions. As well as, behaviors that continue to sabotage your perceptions, relationships, and goals. This proven therapy can create an environment where distress fades. Your brain wants to heal itself.

What is EMDR Psychotherapy and How is It Helpful?

What is EMDR Psychotherapy and How is It Helpful?

Is EMDR Psychotherapy right for you? Not everyone embraces the idea of traditional talk therapy. Especially when depression drains them. Or traumatic memories make life unpredictable. Or the pain of abuse is too terrible to talk about freely. Suffering emotional or psychological pain can make long talk sessions seem unbearable.

How to Find a Somatic Therapist & What to Expect?

How to Find a Somatic Therapist & What to Expect?

How to Find a Somatic Therapist? As you begin your search, do realize that somatic therapy often does not stand alone. There are many capable therapists who integrate somatic therapy into various therapy and counseling practices. That’s okay! Just understand which questions to ask and credentials to look for. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver...

Can a Depression Counselor Help? 4 Things You Need to Know

Can a Depression Counselor Help? 4 Things You Need to Know

A depression counselor helps remind you that you have a right to feel better. Low self- esteem, self-imposed, and the colorless life you’ve been leading can make you feel like you deserve depression. A trained professional can encourage you and affirm your choice to seek more than a life sentence of depressive thinking and loneliness.

Healing Complex PTSD in Women: Post Traumatic Growth

Healing Complex PTSD in Women: Post Traumatic Growth

Studies show that women are consistently more likely to meet criteria for complex PTSD. Additionally, experts find that women experience more severe symptoms than men. This is true even when men experienced the same traumatic events. Why? Scientists find that women think and process trauma differently and more acutely.

Choosing an Eating Disorder Psychotherapist: 5 Tips to Getting the Help You Need to Heal

Choosing an Eating Disorder Psychotherapist: 5 Tips to Getting the Help You Need to Heal

An eating disorder psychotherapist requires understanding and effective treatment. While psychotherapy can be challenging, it is a worthwhile part of your healing. Thus, an eating disorder psychotherapist helps aid therapy sessions and various types of help that improve your self-awareness and coping skills.

4 Things I Have Learned About Intuitive Eating

4 Things I Have Learned About Intuitive Eating

Intuitive eating finally clicked one day for me. You might be interested in letting go and having your body figure out its natural weight. It is possible that you are okay the way you are and can start living life now? Doesn’t this sound so freeing, yet so frightening at the same time? Of course, this is extremely common in our society.

PTSD and Bipolar: 5 Ways to Take Charge and Find Relief.

PTSD and Bipolar: 5 Ways to Take Charge and Find Relief.

Do you have PTSD and bipolar disorder? How are you doing? Are you struggling to find relief? Do you wonder how you can manage the two together? Do you long to find more freedom in life? Please know that you are not alone. In fact, it's often the case that PTSD and bipolar exist together. Experts note that the experience is fairly common.

Treating PTSD With Mindfulness: 4 Reasons Why It is Successful.

Treating PTSD With Mindfulness: 4 Reasons Why It is Successful.

Treating PTSD with mindfulness has a lot to offer you if you commit to it. Science has proven it and other PTSD sufferers swear by it. Maybe now is the time to pursue a way to live life less overwhelmed. More at peace with your symptoms and less at war with your current world and the people in it.

5 Tips for Healing PTSD: It is Possible.

5 Tips for Healing PTSD: It is Possible.

Healing PTSD is possible yet you may feel: That your future is out of your control and healing might be impossible? That it's hard to even picture the future existing, much less imagine what it will be like? Many people with PTSD allow past trauma to create their future life.

PTSD nightmares: 5 Tips to Help You Cope and Heal

PTSD nightmares: 5 Tips to Help You Cope and Heal

Are you having PTSD nightmares? The toll PTSD nightmares puts on an already taxed mind is intense. Often times, they create deeper problems or push the sufferer toward unhealthy coping. Without proper rest, PTSD can start to overwhelm and further strain you during the waking hours.