Today, we're going to talk about treating trauma by breaking through dissociation that is so common with traumatic events.
Many traumatized individuals alternate between re-experiencing their trauma and being detached from, or even relatively unaware of the trauma and its effects. It can be very confusing, for the individual and for those who interact
Shock may begin early in life and then build up as life’s stresses increase, or it may result from a sudden traumatic event.
Stress is a normal part of our lives and, of course, most people feel stress
More and more Americans are realizing that, yes indeed, we do have trauma and it is time
People who are affected by shock in their lives often have survived traumas of various types. Many of the traumas we refer to in our case examples in our book Overcoming Shock: Healing the Traumatized Mind and Heart (New Horizon Press, 2014) are early childhood traumas, including parental rejection, sexual or physical abuse, being unwelcome or unaccepted