Many people may not realize how unresolved trauma can influence the quality of their life and their relationships. They may downplay the significance of their trauma or may live “distracted” where ...

So, you've started to notice some patterns in your life, and you're wondering why you react the way you do. Emotional habits can feel like second nature, but sometimes they're more than just quirks.

Fight or flight are not the only common responses to a traumatic event. I addressed this a bit in a column published on November 22, 2022 explaining that some authors describe “4 F’s”: fight, flight, ...

Past trauma casts long shadows over present relationships, creating invisible barriers to intimacy and connection that both partners often struggle to understand. When traumatic experiences remain ...

These days, it's common to scroll through social media feeds and see certain "buzzy" terms in captions and on images, like "gaslighting," "golden handcuffs," "brightsiding," "parentification" and ...

People who grew up in chaos, neglect, or fear often carry that history into adulthood in ways that are easy to misread. What ...

'Fawning is a survival response often learned in childhood,' one psychologist says A money-related offshoot to a common trauma response is "financial fawning," which can impact how we spend, talk ...

This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a hard-hitting recovery manual for those of us who have learned to survive in this world by being overly agreeable, overly accommodating and people-pleasing. In ...