My commitment to providing deep, individualized work with partners, supporters, and clinicians who are in relationships with survivors is as strong as ever. As always, appointments are designed to provide customized care unique to each…
I didn’t used to be good at saying ‘no.’ More often than not, I said ‘yes’ to an extra family or friend’s social event or to the advice of someone I thought knew more. I…
It can be a challenge to find information for both survivors and their loved ones in a single post. I asked two trauma therapists to weigh in on the topic on my blog.
‘What happened to you?’ is not the only question for families of survivors If you have been reading my blog for a while or any other trauma-related information, I am sure you are familiar with…
My husband has developmental trauma and no one told me about it. After eight trauma therapists, three psychiatric assessments, four general practitioners, two big psychological breakdowns, many smaller breakdowns, three employment leaves, financial loss, one…
Sometimes your situation may fall outside of my scope of practice. If you or your loved one is experiencing a mental health crisis, struggling with suicidal thoughts, or you are struggling with domestic violence or…
Do the words ‘family estrangement’ scare you? Do they make you inwardly recoil or want to stop reading? Maybe the topic feels too heavy on top of everything going on in the world right now.…
How do you remain hopeful when your survivor-partner is struggling? What a question! One with which I am well acquainted. Here’s the thing. I am not always hopeful. A recent challenge brought this front and…
Last week, I attended a one-day workshop with Kristin Neff, Ph.D. For those of you who are not familiar with Dr. Neff’s work, she is a self-compassion researcher and the co-founder of the Mindful Self-Compassion…
Supporting partners of trauma survivors is my mission. I was very excited when Laura Reagan, founder, and host of TherapyChat invited me to be a guest on her podcast. Of course, the episode focused on…
It happened again. About one month ago, there was a clear decline in my husband’s mental health. Truthfully, the decline had been happening for a while, but it was obvious he needed medical help. Our…
You are more than your trauma. I couldn’t sleep. My mind ran restless laps around last week’s events. As much as I wanted to put it all behind me, my brain had other ideas. I…