Many years ago a client named Susan came in seeking help at the urging of her mother. She was 17 years old. She was a survivor of a major house fire when she was 15 years old. No one was badly hurt, but the entire home had gone up in flames. In the year’s following, […]
A client, let’s call her Agnes, confessed something recently. In the session, she said, “I think I am stuck in a trauma bond.” Like many of today’s psycho-pop words, the term trauma bond has been floating around lately. Calling this type of colloquialism psycho-pop does not diminish its function or potential to help someone learn
There are so many emotional expectations packed into the Holiday season. It’s a time of anticipation, excitement, anxiety, and for some, heartache. For those who’ve experienced perinatal loss, the holiday season after will look very different from one that was previously imagined — and this is often challenging and charged. Grief is not linear. It
