Downloadable Fillable Questionaire for Adults The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire is a tool used to assess the impact of...

The “window of tolerance” is a term coined by psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Siegel. Your window of tolerance is the amount of stress that you can handle before you become too emotionally dysregulated to be able to practically function. When you feel emotionally triggered, and you do not know how to recalibrate yourself and calm yourself, you will step outside your window of tolerance and become hijacked by your emotions. When you become emotionally hijacked, it will feel not easy t

“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” ~ Bessel A. van der Kolk The trauma egg exercise was developed as a tool for processing emo

"Small-t trauma happens from events, often hidden or unacknowledged within an apparently normal life." ~ Hilary Jacobs Hendel Francine...

For many years, the autonomic nervous system was thought to have two branches, a sympathetic branch for revving up and a parasympathetic...

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found...