Hello trauma warriors! My name is Jaena and I run this site. I am also a reformed book hoarder. I started my “collection” in 1996 and it swiftly consumed my life. It wouldn’t be until 2019 when I would take control of it, removing forty-six boxes of books from my home and donating them to …
Confessions of a Reformed Book Hoarder: A Heal-Along with Jaena Read More »
When we think of hoarding, the television show Hoarders usually comes to mind. Inside the hoarder’s home are huge piles of random junk which have taken over all living spaces. And if you’ve seen even one episode of this show, you know what happens when the intervention team arrives. The moment they remove one useless …
Hoarding as an Attachment Disorder Read More »
These visual aids are an overview of the series I wrote a while back on our attachment styles. Three weeks’ worth of articles (which I will link as we go) condensed into “flashcards” of the main points. (Well, four if you count the fun one we did. When we analyzed The Break-Up movie (2006) as …
Attachment Styles, Our Outer World, and the Inner Child Wound Read More »
In this series, we’ve been using charts of what happens when each hormone is too low, (deficient) when it’s ideal, and when it’s too high. That way you get to see the overall arc of what’s going on in succession. Two weeks ago, we focused on the four most relevant stress hormones. Then last week, …
Social Bonding Hormones: From Low, Ideal, to High Read More »
What is the parasympathetic nerve? It’s half of our Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). (Section 2 of Trauma Glossary 3.) The other half is the sympathetic nerve, which is our stress, or fight or flight response. So, the parasympathetic nerve acts as the “brakes” to the stress response. The balance (or imbalance) hinges on our hormone …
Parasympathetic Nerve Hormones: From Deficient, to Ideal, to High Read More »
