Cognitive Trauma

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. Its main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, cope healthily with stress, regulate emotions, and improve relationships with others. It was originally intended for people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) but has since been adapted for other conditions where the patient exhibits self-destructive behavior, such as eating disorders and substance abuse. It is also sometimes used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

A self-healer`s guide to solution-focused self-management: emotional regulation, and cognitive restructuring to manage triggers during self-parenting following a trigger. When you are triggered, you become the parent you need to; hear you, see you, acknowledge you, soothe you, and provide solutions for your challenges that accompany the trigger. Here is the tool you have been waiting for. It contains guidance to assess a trigger, root cause analysis, how to match trigger with unmet need, how to create goals and solutions to meet unmet needs and minimise the recurrence of triggers, or impact...

Contrary to long-held belief, trauma is not only caused by exposure to a single, extreme event. The cumulative effect of common stressors that we encounter in our day-to-day lives can have an equally significant impact on our mental and physical well-being. From difficult childhoods, to bereavements, pregnancy and childbirth, and even stressful jobs, traumas - both large and small - are a part of life we can't control, but we can change the way we respond to them.