Coping with Our Traumas

Do you often find yourself repeating past experiences and patterns in your day-to-day life?

It constantly scans our environment for cues: Should I be careful here? Is this a dangerous situation? Is this person a friend or foe? Am I properly hydrated and fed to deal with any threats? The autonomic system uses something called neuroception – a ‘sixth sense’ that operates outside our conscious awareness – to assess our environment and put pe

Thirty days later, Ally added journalling to her morning ritual and began to follow my prompts for an exercise that I call Future Self Journalling (you can grab the whole guide for free at https://yourholisticpsychologist.com), and created for my own healing.

In childhood, you learn emotional regulation by watching how your parent-figure(s) express their feelings (or don’t) and by the way they respond when you express yours.

The more engaged she became with her yoga practise, the more she started to live in the present moment.

In addition to all the health issues associated with this chronic stress state, people who struggle with an overactive sympathetic response system (what is known as poor vagal tone) report hosts of troubling issues. Some of the most common emotional and relational patterns include:

cycles of human emotions can be addicting too. Emotional addiction is particularly powerful when we habitually seek or avoid certain emotional states as a way to cope with trauma.

If the genes we inherited were adversely affected by the experiences of generations before us, how do we stop the cycle?