Insights & Tools for Healing

Trauma isn’t just something that happened. It’s what happened inside you as a result. And often, it’s what keeps happening when your body and nervous system don’t feel safe — even long after the event is over.

Your nervous system is designed to move through waves — activation and deactivation, expansion and contraction. But when stress builds up, or when we’ve been taught to ignore what we feel, we can lose our rhythm.

In experiential therapies we seek approaches that don’t just treat symptoms, but actually speak to the heart of our experience—especially when that experience involves trauma. For me, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) has been one of those approaches. It helped me make sense of the reactions and behaviors I once didn’t understand, and provided tools that supported deep, meaningful healing.

Trauma can feel like a shadow, lingering long after the event has passed. It affects how we see ourselves and the world

Trauma isn’t just about what happened—it’s about how it felt inside of you. It’s those moments that left you confused, overwhelmed, or...

We come into the world knowing how to connect. That drive for connection is hardwired into us from the very beginning.

Trauma isn’t just about what happened—it’s about how it felt inside of you. It’s those moments when something hits you too hard or too...

It’s no surprise that many of us struggle to feel truly safe, at ease, or at home in our own bodies. We might feel shame or confusion around our desires—or wonder if we’re even allowed to have any. We might shut down emotionally or physically. We might feel both hungry for intimacy and terrified of it. These are all deeply human responses.

Both PTSD and cPTSD can impact how you think, how you connect with others, how you trust, and how you feel in your body. Healing is possible, but it takes intentional work.