From the time you are developing in the womb until your dying day, you will experience many small and large injuries to your psyche, your sense of [...]

Photo of man and woman sitting on bed with sad expression When a person is exposed to multiple traumatic events over a long period, they [...]

When children experience the death of a parent or caregiver, they tell themselves a story about it to make sense of it and cope. As Joan Didion [...]

In a study recently completed in France, 15 people spent 40 days together in a cave. They had no clocks, no daylight, and no contact with the [...]

Few things make us consider our own mortality more than a pandemic. The nightly news, newspaper front pages, and mournful posts on social media serve as constant [...]

We feel guilty when we believe we have done something wrong, but we feel shame when we believe that we are wrong. In other words, guilt is about a [...]

Much of the advice therapists usually offer to people suffering from anxiety doesn't work anymore. In normal times, I would tell you to go to the beach [...]

Physical abuse can leave physical scars, while emotional abuse leaves psychic ones, but what about emotional neglect? The absence of emotional support in childhood can be as [...]

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are most common among Americans with mental illness. Anxiety affects just over 18% of the population [...]

At any age, in any life stage, you can change. Whether you’re 77 years old or 17, you can learn, grow, adopt new habits, and make new [...]

If you’re someone who struggles with anxiety, the process of finding a therapist can feel overwhelming. Since therapists often specialize in treatment methods, finding the right type of [...]

Like all emotions, anxiety is healthy, and we’re all prone to feeling it sometimes. Anxiety can become a debilitating problem, though, when the stress you feel is [...]

There are many reasons why it’s hard to keep a New Year’s resolution, and why over 50 percent of them fail. Many of us make goals that [...]

Anxiety is a tricky emotion. What might at first feel like anxiousness can, on more in-depth exploration, turn out to be a different emotion entirely. And what [...]

Trauma generates emotions, and unless we process these emotions at the time the trauma occurs, the emotions become stuck in our mind and body. Instead of healing [...]

Every fight follows the same path, or every friendship ends the same way, or one romantic partner blends into the next because they’re all so similar: all [...]

Childhood trauma In what ways do children internalize trauma, versus the way someone who experienced trauma as an adult would? Since children are the center [...]

As kids we’re taught not to talk to strangers, then when we’re adults, we’re supposed to be suddenly good at it. Job interviews, networking events, and first [...]

How Childhood Emotional Trauma Impacts Adult Relationships You may already be familiar with some of the ways childhood emotional trauma can impact us as adults. [...]

4 Ways Childhood Emotional Trauma Impacts Us as Adults Whether you witnessed or experienced violence as a child or your caretakers emotionally or physically neglected [...]

Here are 5 things you need to know about anxiety. "I'm so stressed out right now." We hear this often and may say it, too. [...]

Many of the beliefs that have the greatest impact on our lives exist on a level outside of our awareness. They were developed during childhood, yet they [...]

Everyone procrastinates sometimes, but 20 percent of people chronically avoid difficult tasks and deliberately look for distractions — which, unfortunately, are increasingly available. Many people I know [...]