Videos
A collection of video resources on various topics found throughout our site located here to help you find the honest place
Trauma
Trauma in its most basic term means "wound." For the sake of simplicity, trauma can best be characterized in the way John Briere states: "...an event is traumatic if it is extremely upsetting, at least temporarily overwhelms the individual's internal resources, and produces lasting psychological symptoms." Even more simply, "Trauma, by definition, is unbearable and intolerable," Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score).
Shame
Shame is a physiological response that triggers our autonomic nervous system, activating our sympathetic nervous system into fight or flight or our parasympathetic nervous system into freeze. Shame says, I am bad, I am not good, I am not good enough, I am not enough, I have little to no value, I am defective, something is wrong with me, I am incompetent, or I am unlovable.
Empathy
Empathy is the ability to feel and understand another's experience and to be moved toward action. Empathy requires us to recognize and feel our own emotional experience and use it as information to help others feel felt.
Emotional Regulation
Emotional regulation is the act of managing and responding to one's emotional experience. When your child feels, at times the emotion or sensation can be felt, tolerated and addressed appropriately. In other times the feeling can flood your child's nervous system and feel overwhelming, leading to what is referred to as emotional dysregulation.
Grief
Grief is our body's natural response, both emotionally and physically, to the loss of someone or something important. Whether we lose someone we love, our wallet, keys or glasses, or we come to the realization of "what could have been" or "what should have been but never was," grief is what we experience in the process of the loss.
Autism
ADHD
Anxiety
Parenting
