15 Physical Symptoms of Stress You Shouldn’t Ignore

15 Physical Symptoms of Stress You Shouldn’t Ignore

Most of us expect to have some stress in life and consider that normal. Issues like work challenges, relationship issues, health issues and just everyday life can all cause some anxiety. Now, our body knows how to deal with stress and activates our fight or flight response, which then in our defense, causes a variety of bodily changes so we are stronger to escape the possible threat: increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, breathing becomes faster and more shallow and our muscles tense.  

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Sexual Trauma Can Shatter Your Life — With RRT You Can Heal: Clear Your Mind, Heal Your World

Sexual Trauma Can Shatter Your Life — With RRT You Can Heal: Clear Your Mind, Heal Your World

Sexual trauma has long-lasting effects that can impact the way you see the world. Whether you experienced a single traumatic event or years of abusive treatment, the impact can be profound. Rapid Resolution Therapy can help you clear your mind of the trauma and therefore clear the emotional feelings that you experience thinking about the trauma.

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Why Is Rapid Resolution Therapy One of the Best Treatment Options for Trauma Survivors?

Why Is Rapid Resolution Therapy One of the Best Treatment Options for Trauma Survivors?

Sometimes memories of events that are disturbing or traumatic can be like an app that gets downloaded into your emotional system.  As the app runs in the background, unknown to you,  it continues to influence you in the present causing you to react or overreact to anything that is similar.

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Facts about PTSD–Let’s Separate the Myths from the Facts

Facts about PTSD–Let’s Separate the Myths from the Facts

War, unimaginable tragedy, and natural disasters, known as big T trauma, bubble up on the internet in a 24-hour news cycle these days. Trauma seems to be all around us, everywhere. And for some, PTSD is a new, unwanted, reality. For those of us who have experienced trauma, or enduring it with a loved one, or wondering what it means, it’s vital we know what we’re dealing with. Let’s examine some of the facts about PTSD.

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How Does Childhood Abuse Become PTSD in Adults?

How Does Childhood Abuse Become PTSD in Adults?

Childhood abuse is not survived without scars. Many survivors live with wounds that others can’t see. You do your best to try to manage, but as the years go by, coping becomes harder and harder and zaps all of your energy. These old wounds weren’t healed with time, as you hoped they would be. Instead, they were painfully transformed into something adult, pervasive and entrenched: post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

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Rapid Resolution Therapy: What is It and How Does It Help with Trauma?

Rapid Resolution Therapy: What is It and How Does It Help with Trauma?

Things that happened to you in the past, can replay in your mind day after day. But you don’t have to live with it. You may avoid seeking counseling because you may have gone to counseling in the past and it wasn’t pleasant. Your experience was one of talking about it- over and over- until you felt as though you were reliving it. It may have felt like it only made things worse.

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Traumatic Grief Counseling: When the Sadness Won’t Go Away

Traumatic Grief Counseling: When the Sadness Won’t Go Away

Are you personally familiar with traumatic grief? When something tragic or unexpected happens, two experiences can converge into shock and pain. It is understandably difficult to manage without help. Sometimes trauma and grief combine for immeasurable sadness. Mental or emotional pain and loss may continue to affect your life in ways you never anticipated. Maybe you can’t help but replay painful events because memories intrude and recur. Perhaps your reactions may feel uncontrolled and unpredictable.

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The Emotional Impact of Trauma: How RRT Helps You Clear Your Mind and Heal the Emotional Response

The Emotional Impact of Trauma: How RRT Helps You Clear Your Mind and Heal the Emotional Response

The worst moments of your life are not easily forgotten. Nor should they be, necessarily. Nor should they be constantly re-lived. To be sure, there may be lessons to learn and growth to be gained. But should you suffer forever from the emotional impact of those moments? Or can you remember without the emotional pain?

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Can Music Heal Trauma? Exploring the Therapeutic Powers of Sound

Can Music Heal Trauma? Exploring the Therapeutic Powers of Sound

An increasing number of music therapists are now treating people touched by traumas both big and small, highlighting humanity’s deepest connections with music in the process.

Imagine you are a newborn baby in an intensive care unit. Maybe you were born prematurely, or didn’t get enough oxygen during the delivery. There might be an IV in your tiny arm, with a small board holding it down so you can’t rip it out. You might have a tube going into your nose. You are alone, finally stabilizing after a traumatic event. But then, the doctors come in.

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