· Trauma & Attachment
I Know Why I Feel This Way. So Why Am I Still Stuck?
You can name the attachment wound and trace the pattern, and the trigger still fires. Insight and healing are not the same thing, and why that is.
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Trauma & Attachment
Writing from Karen Sussan, LCSW, LMHC, grouped by subject. Browse every post or pick another category below.
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· Trauma & Attachment
Trauma Therapy: Bridge for Greater Wholeness
A metaphor from trauma specialist Agnes Wohl, shared with her permission, for what is realistic to expect from attachment and trauma work in therapy.
· Trauma & Attachment
Is Shame Getting in the Way of Your Healing?
Thoughtful, self-aware people still say they feel stuck. Often shame is the reason, and it lives in the nervous system rather than in understanding.
· Trauma & Attachment
From Neglect to Overprotection: How Trauma Changes Shape Across Generations
Intergenerational trauma often changes shape: neglect in one generation can become overprotection in the next. How EMDR helps unravel the pattern.
· Trauma & Attachment
Did You Have a Recent Trauma?
Accidents happen, and the effects can linger well past the event. On EMDR’s recent traumatic episode protocol, R-TEP, for something that just happened.
· Trauma & Attachment
“The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.” Fred Rogers (AKA Mr. Rogers)
Emotional conflict in the present is often rooted in early attachment ruptures that were never repaired. On talking to the child who is still in you.
· Trauma & Attachment
Attachment Trauma: The Hidden Impacts of Early Childhood Experiences
Attachment trauma comes from the everyday bond with a caregiver rather than a single event, and the effects can last a lifetime. Signs, and how it heals.
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