Trauma and Healing

A collection of articles on trauma and healing.

LIFE ALTERING EVENTS

By T. Franklin Murphy / March 13, 2022 / 2 minutes of reading / Trauma and Healing

Life altering events are the events that require cognitive reevaluation of basic assumptions about the world.

By T. Franklin Murphy / March 10, 2022 / 8 minutes of reading / Emotions, Trauma and Healing

Allostasis is prediction and preparation for demands on our system. This article examines allostasis’s role in maintaining balance.

We can change our emotional reaction with a cognitive reappraisal, looking at the emotion or situation and subjectively altering it.

By T. Franklin Murphy / October 25, 2021 / 7 minutes of reading / Psychology, Trauma and Healing

Dialectical behavior therapy is a cognitive behavioral therapy based style focused on managing opposing forces in our lives.

Emotional wounds that refuse to heal scar our existence. They hurt but we can learn from the pain and experience joy again.