why panic isn’t just fear: the attachment message behind it
Panic often works like a guard dog for buried feelings, but it's also a call for connection. Psychotherapist, Aaron Mitchum explains what panic is really protecting.
The Part of Therapy No One Explains—and Why You Keep Baking a Cake When You Need a Sandwich
Therapy isn’t just about fixing problems. Learn the overlooked relational part of therapy—and why old survival patterns feel so real in the present.
Shifting perspectives: understanding your mental health through a biological lens
Your perspective on emotional well-being significantly shapes your actual emotional health.
Rethinking Mental Health: Beyond Symptoms and Illness
Mental health extends beyond medical diagnoses, emphasizing the role of trauma and its lasting impact on behavior as responses to past experiences.
Traumas lead to enduring fight, flight, or freeze reactions, highlighting these behaviors as survival strategies rather than symptoms of illness.
Viewing mental health through the lens of adaptiveness acknowledges coping mechanisms as contextually driven, shaped by individual experiences and environments.
From Conflict to Clarity: Uncovering and Transforming Insecure Beliefs with Mindful Awareness
It can be challenging to recognize the insecurities and self-doubts that surface during moments of conflict. These underlying beliefs often remain unnoticed, yet they trigger our body's fight, flight, or freeze response. Gaining awareness of these beliefs is akin to discovering who is behind the wheel, driving our reactions.
The Triad of Change: Memory, Completion, and Mindfulness in Mental Health
Achieving profound and lasting change in our mental health and emotional well-being requires addressing three fundamental elements: memory, the completion of initiated responses, and mindfulness. These components serve as the cornerstone for transforming our automatic emotional and behavioral patterns and paving the way for new beginnings.
What is trauma?
Dr. Peter Levine created Somatic Experiencing (c) but what does he mean by “Trauma is incomplete self-protective responses waiting to be completed”? Think of it this way: