Trauma

Think Like a Lion Tamer To Take Control Of Your Life

Karen Salmansohn | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Barnum & Bailey Circus, Graham Thomas Chipperfield, Trauma, Divorce, Lion Tamer, Bounce Back, Break Up, Crisis, Challenge, Relationships, Personal Growth, Gps-Soul, Personal Development, Self Help, Emotional Wellness, Healthy Living News
Karen Salmansohn

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

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7 (Drug-Free) Ways To Overcome Divorce Anxiety

Mark Banschick, MD | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Stress Management, Stress, Cbt, Trauma, Divorce, Progressive Exposure Therapy, Acupuncture, Exercise, Meditation, Diet, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Anxiety, Divorce and Stress, Sleep, Divorce News
Mark Banschick, MD

It probably does not come as a surprise to you that anxiety and stress disorders are common among recent divorcés. Some choose to deal with this stress by taking anti-anxiety medications.

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Opening Up To Healing

Wendy Strgar | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Healing, Trauma, Emotional Health, Wendy Strgar, Self Care, Heal Yourself, Healing Yourself, Emotional Healing, Emotional Wellness, Healthy Living News
Wendy Strgar

Finding the courage to extricate the shame, guilt, or other emotional baggage from our hearts is where healing begins and we open to the potential of our life.

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Tackling Shame: 'Shame's Primary Power Is to Make Us Afraid of Being Vulnerable.' Part I

George Molho | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Scarred a Memoir, Tackling Shame, Happiness, Domestic Abuse, Shame, Trauma, Emotional Healing, Abuse, Impact, Emotional Wellness, Healthy Living, Vulnerability, Self-Healing, Surviving, Emotional Pain, Child Abuse, Vulnerable, Courage, Emotional Health, Self-Empowerment, Healthy Living News
George Molho

The beauty of vulnerability is in its expression. Its power resides in embracing it. By being unafraid to be vulnerable you will shrink shame, make a feast of fear and starve insecurities.

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The Orange Biographies, the Healing Narrative, and Somatic Techniques

May Benatar, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Mind Body Healing, Counseling, Psychotherapy, Somatic Techniques, Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News
May Benatar, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.

I suppose I have given up my aspiration for greatness. But I have not relinquished my passion for stories, the stories of a life. This has sustained me over decades in the practice of psychotherapy.

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Grief At The Holidays: 12 Ways To Cope With Losing A Loved One Over The Spring Holidays

The Huffington Post | Kate Bratskier | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Easter, Video, Trauma, Grief, Dealing With Grief, Slidepollajax, Hl-Remembrance, Passover, Healthy Living News

Celebrating when you're grieving a loved one can be heartbreaking. Whether you've lost someone 10 weeks or 10 years ago, the grieving process tends to...

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Serious Misunderstanding Of Purim's Mirth

Joshua Stanton | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Religious Freedom, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Religious Violence, Israel, Purim, Trauma, Humor, Parody, Judaism, Religion News
Joshua Stanton

For those who engage in a more fundamentalist reading of the Scroll of Esther, Purim provides an answer to the profound fear of hatred between faiths: freedom of the mind and the suggestion to laugh off tough times once in a while.

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Amazing Graces: Days Two and Three

James S. Gordon | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Meditation, Haiti Earthquake, Ptsd, Trauma, Guided Imagery, Jacmel, Haiti, Mindful Eating, Haiti Recovery, Haiti Recovery Effort, Impact News
James S. Gordon

By the second day there are actually 135 participants -- almost 180 of us altogether. The ones who didn't come to the opening are present and others from the waiting list have found a way.

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House V. Taub In Chase Stabbing Aftermath

Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Jesse Spencer, House, TV Canada, Video, Chase Stabbed, Trauma, Chase, Self Defense, Tv Replay, Aftermath, Peter Jacobson, Reality-Free, TV News

The fallout after Chase's unexpected and near-fatal stabbing affected everyone differently this week on "House" (Mon., 8 p.m. EST on Fox). Except for ...

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Veterans Come Alive in the Great Outdoors

Joseph Bobrow | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, Wilderness, Mental Health, Trauma, Ptsd, Recreation, Impact News
Joseph Bobrow

The unfolding sense of safety with other vets and families, the welcoming embrace of the Bay and its birds, fish, and harbor seal pups helped reservist Mike name an obstacle and find a crease through which he began to come to life.

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Why Rituals Matter After Disaster

Rev. Earl E. Johnson | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Disaster, Chaplain, Ritual, Spirituality, Emotional Health, Religion and Recovery, Trauma, Disaster Chaplain, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Religion News
Rev. Earl E. Johnson

Emotional and spiritual care is just about celebration as much is it is about mourning loss and change.

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After Trauma: 'Why Me?'

Dan Gottlieb, Ph.D. | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Trauma, Express Gratitude, With Gratitude, Trauma Care, Spirit, Gratitude, Gratitude For, Post Trauma, Healthy Living News
Dan Gottlieb, Ph.D.

We try to create order by blaming someone or something. We can blame God and sometimes even blame the victim. But usually we blame ourselves, irrational as it may be. All of this is an effort to calm our brains and try to make sense of our lives.

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Military Sexual Abuse Can't Be Ignored

Joseph Bobrow | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Sundance Film Festival, Invisible Injuries, Rape, Trauma, Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense, Military Sexual Trauma, Women Veterans, The Invisible War, Female Veterans, Veterans, Impact News
Joseph Bobrow

What women veterans need is fundamental respect, recognition, and understanding of the unique stressors of their service experience. They need humane, integrative treatment, and some programming solely with and for their fellow women veterans.

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Quiet in the Midst of Trauma

Joseph Bobrow | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Integrative Medicine, Holistic, Military Families, Holistic Practices, Trauma, Fitness for Duty, Mindfulness, Veteran Mental Health, Resilience, Combat Veterans, Tbi, Meditation, Ptsd, Veterans, Impact News
Joseph Bobrow

The purpose of meditation is not to stop our thinking but to create conditions for rest and peace and understanding by cultivating our attention.

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Healing and Optimal Performance

Joseph Bobrow | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Military Families, The Zone, Mental Health, Trauma, Fitness for Duty, Healing Trauma, Resilience, Reintegration, Optimal Performance, Combat Veterans, Tbi, Transition Assistance, Flow, Ptsd, Veterans, Impact News
Joseph Bobrow

At the outset of World War II, the British Ministry of Information came up with the slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On" for a poster designed to allay the fear that Germany would invade Great Britain. My friend, a commander serving in Afghanistan, uses it for his signature line.

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Can We Just Call It Homesickness?

Judith Acosta | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Drugs, Pathology, Trauma, Pharmaceuticals, Home, Soldier's Heart, Ptsd, Prescriptions, Homesickness, Mental Health, Natural Health, Healthy Living News
Judith Acosta

Because of the authority with which words like "clinical depression" or "bipolar" are used in modern conversation, they are given the impression that those words have a permanence and solidity they do not actually have.

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Bounce

Joseph Bobrow | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Veterans Mental Health, Resilience, Trauma, Army Suicides, Yga, Qigong, Spiritual Practice, Plaasticity, Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, Tbi, Unit Cohesion, Attachment, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, Emotional Resilience, Peeer Support, Neuroscience, Social Supports, Meditation, Ptsd, Suicide Prevention, Trauma Research, Impact News
Joseph Bobrow

Human beings seem infinitely adaptable. But there is no silver bullet, no quick fix potion that will make a soldier, sailor, airman or Marine invulnerable to five, six or more tours of duty in today's war zone and the separations from loved ones.

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How Laughter Helps Veterans Deal With Traumatic Brain Injuries

Joseph Bobrow | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Resilience, Trauma, Afghanistan Veterans, Tbi, Mental Health, Evidence Based Medicine, Ptsd, Iraq Veterans, Veterans, Traumatic Brain Injury, Impact News
Joseph Bobrow

Mauricio provided comic relief at one retreat. In the large group, he challenged his fellow Marine Kenny by claiming that, of the two Master Sergeants...

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Turning Ghosts Into Ancestors

Joseph Bobrow | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Research, Trauma, Veterans, Tbi, Healing, Behavioral Health, Mental Health, Ptsd, Spirituality, Social Supports, Compassion, Fricchione, Impact News
Joseph Bobrow

A ghost gradually becomes an ancestor, and traumatic experiences become memories, by a most human alchemy. The beloved community provides the inspiration, the spirit of support, so we can stop holding our breaths in traumatic reaction and anticipation, and finally exhale.

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No, Really! Whatever Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Risk Taking, Failure, Regret, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Mark D. Seery, Trauma, Becoming-Fearless, Resilience, Home News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

Which is worse: coming up against one of life's Epically Awful Moments only to find all of your friends spewing some tired old cliche, or attempting to comfort someone who's just endured an Epically Awful Moment of her own using the only thing you can come up with -- the same cliche?

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Collapse of a World

Helen Davey | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Trauma, Collapse of Pan Am, Terrorism, Collective Trauma, Flight 103, Aviation History, Pan Am, Bankruptcy, Lifestyle, Life Changes, Great Recession, Recession, Business News
Helen Davey

I'm struck by the similarity of the feelings of instability in the world now with how we Pan Am employees felt as our company began to fail.

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War and (Inner) Peace -- Spirituality and the Road Home

Joseph Bobrow | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: GEN Chiarelli, Trauma, Veterans, ADM Mullen, Moral Injuries, War Zone Trauma, Spiritual Injuries, Spirituality, Ptsd, Impact News
Joseph Bobrow

Most people associate war zone trauma solely with PTSD, but the psychiatric syndrome, whatever the acronym we use for it, doesn't capture the depth and power of what keeps some veterans awake, eating at them from the inside for years.

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Do Dogs Experience PTSD After Trauma?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Battle, Mental Health, Healthy, Trauma, Healthy People Healthy Pets, War, Syndromes, Psychology, Clinical Care, Diagnosis, Health, Dr. David Katz, Psychosomatic, Doctors, Ptsd, News, Medicine, Dogs, Conditions, Pet-Health, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

As a society, we understand the need for a splint when a bone is broken. When "all" that is broken is one's composure or spirit, we often expect you to just get over yourself.

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A Primer for Classical Homeopathy: How to Make the Interview Easier and More Productive

Judith Acosta | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Psychotherapy, Crisis, Trauma, Classical Homeopathy, Homeopathy, Health, Like Cures Like, Natural Health, Healthy Living News
Judith Acosta

Part of what makes a homeopathic interview successful is the synergy between you, the patient, and your homeopath. There must be a give and take, a relationship of trust, and an open dialogue.

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Sex, Education, and Abuse: Are We Failing Our Kids Miserably?

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Depression, Abuse, Trauma, Child, Children, Sex, Teens, Tweens, Parenting, Anxiety, Molestation, Mothers, Family, Parents News
Barbara Greenberg

Simply telling your kids about good versus bad touches and then expecting them to come to you if they have been touched in the wrong places is not enough.

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