Trauma and Rumination

What is rumination? Rumination is the single most toxic mental process. It involves repetitive, negative thinking about the self, others, past of future events. It can also take the form of comparing self to others, reviewing memories, or trying to problem-solve...

Finding Meaning After Trauma

I would like to start this blog post with one statement. However you are reacting to this recent tragedy, whatever you’re thinking or feeling, is completely normal. There is not a right way to feel or think.     It is with a heavy heart that I even have to write this...
It was all my fault: Hindsight is 20/20

It was all my fault: Hindsight is 20/20

We’ve all heard the term, hindsight is 20/20. Looking back, it’s so easy to see it all clearly: decisions, events, actions and how they all played out. Many survivors of trauma spend much of their time stuck, focused on the minute details of the decisions that they...

I thought this was just my personality

In my second post in my series about trauma, I discuss how powerful the realization (and validation) of realizing you have post-traumatic stress disorder (or symptoms of PTSD) can free a person from a lifelong assumption that this is just who they are. To view my...

An overview of trauma and PTSD

This is our first post in a series of blog articles about trauma. In this post I will present an overview of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Future posts will discuss in more detail common symptoms of PTSD, details about treatment for PTSD, and frequent issues...