Tag: traumatic life events
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Overcoming Trauma Avoidance: Steps Towards Healing and Growth
Given the threat system’s proneness to react with full-blown fight or flight response in response to trauma related cues, avoidance of places and activities that remind one of traumatic memories can be both an automatic response to triggers and an active attempt to cope with the impact of trauma. The questions is, how can we…
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Reassuring Your Mind After Trauma: Mindful Compassion Techniques
In the aftermath of trauma, the threat system in our mind can frequently say to us words like “It’s just like the time when (trauma) happened” in response to minor triggers in the surrounding. Worse still, the threat system can turn to blame us, the victim, because it is easier, feels safer and more in…
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Coping with Flashbacks: Techniques for Trauma Recovery
Flashback refers to re-experiencing traumatic events as if they are happening right now. It can come in various vividity, from intrusive recollection of what happened in the mind to dissociative experiences where one feels like reliving the traumatic event in real time. Flashback is one of the major suffering trauma survivors struggle with because every…
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Traumatic Life Events and Compassion Focused Healing Approaches
Traumatic life event refers to significant event that bring actual or threatened physical and/or psychological harm to us or someone close to us. For example, natural disaster or accident that leads to injury or death, physical violence, sexual violence etc. Traumatic event can lead to intrusive re-experiencing, hypervigilance, avoidance behaviours and emotional distress. The symptoms…
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