Coping with the Holidays: Skills and Self Care for Trauma Survivors
Togetherness can be fun, joyful, and fulfilling for many people. Yet, for many others, the idea of coming together with certain friends and family can be triggering, isolating, distressing, and anxiety-provoking.
Below, I have outlined core skills to use whenever we think our sensitivity is high.
Radical Acceptance
Mindfulness
Self and Sensory Soothing
Boundaries with people, time, and content.
What is trauma? Signs and symptoms of PTSD
PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is defined by both incident AND impact. Mental health professionals think of trauma and PTSD as being a psychological injury in the sense that an outside event has occurred, and it has caused a shift in the way our brain perceives the world and physiologically activates or deactivates certain things in the body.
