Articles on Trauma and Relationships
The Holidays Require Special Skills
Everyone else is celebrating. You feel emptiness, dread, and a loneliness you can't explain. That's not a character flaw. It's developmental trauma surfacing during the holidays.
How Trauma of Any Kind Shows Up During Intimacy (and What to Do)
The trauma doesn't have to be sexual for it to show up during intimacy. Any unresolved trauma in your nervous system can hijack arousal. Here's the neurobiology of why.
21 Signs of Unresolved Sexual Trauma (that You Can Heal)
You might not remember what happened. But your body does. Here are 21 signs that unresolved sexual trauma is still showing up in your life, and why every one of them can heal.
The Mother Inside
"I don't want you to write." My mother said it once. The part of me that copied her has said it a thousand times since. Learn how to reshape the inner caregiver who's still running your life.