Your Mind Should Be a Safe Place

Trauma has conditioned your system to stay in hyperdrive, causing hypersensitivity and hyper-reactivity to stress. The pause button is hard to find because you are wired to survive.

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50. Can Someone Live Happily After 50 Traumatic Exposures

50. That is the number I came up with the last time I wrote it all out. That’s almost one event for every year of my life, starting

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An Important Holiday Message from Trauma Recovery Coach Mia Vivone

I want you to know how honored I am to have crossed paths with you. It is my hope that this message finds you with an awareness of

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In Response to “Suicide is a Cowardly and Selfish Act”

Suicide is so complex that none of us could begin to understand another’s suffering and mindset that compels them to succeed in this act. I know from working

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Ultra-Independence: Both an asset and a liability.

A fierce sense of independence has been both my greatest asset and my greatest liability. It kept me alive, helped me raise two boys alone, and helped me

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A Daily Plan to Cope with Isolation

More than ever, this is when you have to place the care of your mental health as your first priority. Here is a plan to help you cope

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THE CAUSE OF DEPRESSION: COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL

Depression is Serious In 2014, an estimated 15.7 million American adults age 18 and up and an estimated 2.8 million American youth ages 12-17 reported having one or

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