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 »
Last week we learned about the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and that it has two major nerves. They are the sympathetic which is the stress response (fight or flight) and the parasympathetic, which calms the system. Each time we breathe we activate one and then the other. The inhale activates the sympathetic nerve, and the …
Sympathetic Nerve Hormones: From Deficient, to Ideal to High Read More »
If you look up the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) in Trauma Glossary 3 (section 2), you will see it has two major nerves. They are the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nerve. We can think of them as the gas and the brakes, because that’s their common analogy anyway. The sympathetic nerve is the “gas” and …
The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS): Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Simplified Read More »
Kelley McCord is back again this week! This time, she is talking about how the days that followed her brother’s death led to going no contact. If you have been following Kelley’s saga these past two weeks, you know that her mother has ruined many lives. In Kelley’s first interview, we learned how her mother, …
3 Days to No Contact: Daughter Shares What Happened Read More »
Kelley McCord is back with us this week. In case you missed her debut interview, it’s here. Last week, the focus was on how Kelley’s borderline mother (Trauma Glossary 1 – who she has nicknamed Egg Donor) committed serial parental alienation. Against husband numbers one, two, and three! It should come as no surprise that …
She Made His Death All About Her: An Interview Read More »
Parental alienation is when one parent intentionally manipulates their child against their other parent. It’s most common in “high-conflict” custody battles. (High-conflict divorce, by the way, is courtroom code for divorcing a Cluster B disorder – Trauma Glossary 1.) Petty vengeance is usually the motive. So is jealousy. It’s as though the “high conflict” parent …
Parental Alienation: Daughter of a Repeat Offender Speaks Out Read More »
The Break-up was a 2006 comedy starring Jennifer Aniston (as Brooke) and Vince Vaughn (as Gary). What’s most brilliant about this film is, it’s a case study of the doomed romance between opposite attachment styles. Brooke’s character is the Anxious Style, while Gary’s character is the Avoidant Style. What could possibly go wrong for these …
The Break-up (2006 Movie) A Cautionary Tale of Anxious and Avoidant Read More »
