The Lindsay Clancy Case- A Trauma Therapist’s Perspective
The Lindsay Clancy Case: A Trauma Therapist’s Perspective on Why We Must Talk About Maternal Mental Health Trigger Warning: This article discusses maternal filicide, death of children, and postpartum mental illness. Most of you know the name Lindsay Clancy. In January 2023, news broke around the world about a mother in Massachusetts – a nurse, […]
Why your body reacts before you do
Your brain is not recording the present. It’s predicting based on the past. When you lived through something overwhelming, your nervous system learned to stay ready. It made a rule: never again. That rule lives in the body. A tone of voice, a smell, a pause in conversation can feel like danger, even when you […]
The Thing About Trauma Is, It Doesn’t Ask Permission
You keep thinking healing from trauma means getting back to who you were before. Like there’s a version of you sitting in storage somewhere, untouched, waiting to be reinstalled once you’ve done enough work. But that’s not how trauma recovery goes. The person you were before doesn’t come back. You become someone else — hopefully […]
Grandiosity and Trauma: A Guide for Therapists Seeking Growth Through Supervision
We’ve all had them—clients whose confidence feels impenetrable, whose self-assurance crosses into superiority, whose resistance to vulnerability becomes the defining feature of treatment. You find yourself wondering: Is this simply personality? Character pathology? Or is there something deeper at work? More often than we initially recognize, grandiosity is trauma’s signature. Understanding this connection—and learning to […]
Trauma
One of the common beliefs in traumatised people or those whose past experiences were too overwhelmed for them is that the experiences belong to the past and they are able to get away from them. There are many researches that show when we deny the overwhelmed experiences mentally, our body still shows all the overwhelmed […]