This is a companion article to How to Create Holiday Joy in Your Online Support Group. One of the suggestions was creating your own Christmas tree and then challenging your group members to share their own pictures (of anything meaningful to them) as a means of help decorating the tree. If you’re interested in knowing …
Giant Paper Christmas Tree: Easy How-To Guide! Read More »
It’s been a while since I’ve made a wrap-up article on a series. It’s something I love to do after concluding a series of articles. Create a one-stop guide with links to every article in the series, and of course with lots of visual aids too. Exploring the cluster B continuum has been the longest …
The Cluster B Continuum: A Compilation Read More »
Whenever I conclude a series, I like to create visual aids that include links to each article. A one-stop “at-a-glance” review. Each visual aid includes the link to the article that expanded on it. This way, you get the main points while deciding for yourself if you need more information. Well, this time we have …
Hormone Charts Compilation in 7 Visual Aids Read More »
Am I the only nerd with Complex-PTSD? If not, would you like to nerd out with me for a bit? This is a little bonus article to this week’s visual aid wrap-up using seven various hormone charts. Now we can see how to use the hormone charts to check in with ourselves and others. Let’s …
Theoretical Hormone Chart of Ulysses S. Grant: For Science and History Nerds Read More »
The internet gaslighters are encouraging a new generation of enablers. They have been weaving a fantasy world for some time. And it goes something like this. First they describe Cluster B disordered (Trauma Glossary 1) behaviors as nothing more than a trauma response. “Those poor abusers were once, themselves abused! Don’t you feel sorry for …
The Biological Science of Enablers 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 »
Two weeks ago, we covered the most important parts of the brain for healing trauma. It reiterated the importance of being present while building and maintaining our window of tolerance. That article, which was an introduction to this series is here. This week, we are covering the thalamus, how it works, its connection to our …
Thalamus: That Part of the Brain that Interprets the Present Read More »
For healing trauma, three parts of the brain must be online. They are the Thalamus, Watchtower, and Timekeeper. It’s how we build and maintain our window of tolerance. When we are fully aware of what’s going on right now, we can feel safe. This helps us process the past, in a time when we felt …
Healing Trauma: The Most Important Parts of the Brain Read More »
The past two weeks, we have covered Cortisol and Dopamine. Through them, we have learned that they have a converter in common: Norepinephrine. In this visual aid wrap up, we will review how it works for two major body chemicals. The key to a regulated stress response (Cortisol) and building confidence (good Dopamine) is through …
Norepinephrine is the Thinker and Action Taking Hormone Read More »
Our emotions are our signals for meeting our needs. Our uncomfortable emotions are simply telling us that one of those are unmet. When we understand what our emotions want, we can learn how to work with them instead of against them. These visual aids are a wrap up to the past five weeks, where we …
What Do My Emotions Want? Answers in 14 Visual Aids Read More »
