Silence can feel unbearable for people with trauma histories. Background noise helps regulate their nervous system and ...

If trauma isn’t the event, the memory, or the reaction, what is it? Here's a clearer, more hopeful way to understand healing.

At some point, most of us will live through a terrifying event. It could be a car accident, a natural disaster, a medical emergency, a fire—or perhaps a trauma inflicted by another person in the form ...

According to a trauma therapist, if you often struggle with taking other people’s moods too personally, this behavior is likely rooted in childhood trauma and is the result of growing up with toxic ...

Past trauma casts long shadows over present relationships, creating invisible barriers to intimacy and connection that both partners often struggle to understand. When traumatic experiences remain ...

The feelings reverberating from East Lansing and throughout Michigan this week have been aplenty following Monday evening’s shooting that left three students dead and another five injured at Michigan ...

Trigger warnings really only became part of the cultural conversation fairly recently, and they have been the subject of debate. A trigger warning is a written note that a topic may elicit a painful ...

When it comes to childhood trauma, “the past is past” simply doesn’t apply. The scars you carried as a child can quietly resurface years later, often without you even realising it. For many adults, ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel more than 100 hostages have been released. Among those released were more than 30 children. Hostages and family members are now sharing the details ...

I’ve spent decades as a forensic psychologist and clinical traumatologist treating traumatized people. Trauma disrupts functioning and wellbeing. Some assume that traumatic reactions are the response ...

Psychologists, researchers, and mental health professionals have been working with civilian populations in Palestine for years, documenting the effects of their experiences with dispossession and ...

Here’s how to manage those big feelings. We all have moments when we overreact or feel emotions more intensely than expected. These reactions aren’t always about the present, but are often tied to ...