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Does ED Live in Your House?

Does ED Live in Your House?

Eating Disorders commonly called ED are a disease plaguing our modern world.  The increase in individuals affected and reporting ED has become an epidemic unlike any other brain disorder.  A couple of factors come together to form the chaos of an Eating Disorder.  A biological predisposition has been linked to Eating Disorders as well as […]

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Touching Trauma

Touching Trauma

Touching Trauma: Why Touch is used in Psychotherapy and what it looks like – The body instinctively defends against threat and fear of threat. It can perceive danger and reflex to fight, flight or freeze.  The body prepares for the threat by releasing nor-epinepheron and epinephrine through the system in turn increasing it’s heart rate, […]

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About Trauma

About Trauma

Trauma is an interesting phenomenon for mammals. We as human mammals have a more difficulty with trauma because our cognition can become part of getting stuck or frozen in time. By stuck, I mean the past becomes present in body sensation, memory, image, emotion, and/or behavior. A person no longer has a choice in his/her […]

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