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What Is Trauma?
Trauma refers to the emotional and physical responses experienced after a real or perceived life-threatening event. Not every event is traumatic- people react in all sorts of ways to danger. But trauma can fundamentally change someone’s sense of safety, comfort,...
Hypnotherapy & CBT: Overcoming Binge Eating
Everyone has a relationship with food and for many, that relationship is unhealthy. While eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia are well known, binge eating disorder can often go unnoticed by individuals and their loved ones. In the third session,...
What Is Structural Family Therapy?
Salvador Minuchin developed structural family therapy in the 1960s after working as a pediatrician in Argentina. After spending time exclusively working with children, he began to realize that treating them alone didn’t inherently solve their problems. His model of...
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How to Transform Self Sabotage Into Self Improvement
In the first session of this four-part series, clinical psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula and hypnotherapist Grace Smith, discussed the science and similarities behind hypnosis and traditional therapy. In session 2, Dr. Ramani and Smith dive deeper into how our...
The Signs You Grew up in a Toxic Family
Some people can easily recognize the toxicity in their family systems. In these cases, the dysfunction is obvious. Others may dismiss their experiences as normal or even as deserved. At times, this kind of toxicity can even be challenging. It’s hard to heal from...
The Science & Similarities of Hypnotherapy & Traditional Therapy
Hearing the words "hypnotist" or "hypnotherapy" may spark images of mind-controlled individuals clucking like a chicken in front of a laughing audience. While the entertainment industry has leveraged the power of hypnosis to sell tickets, the scientific and mental...
What Are the Main Symptoms of Childhood Trauma in Adults?
There are many kinds of trauma, and any traumatic event can impact your emotional, physical, or mental well-being. Many adults don’t necessarily attribute the experiences in their childhood to their current realities. But research continues to highlight that childhood...
The Most Common Mental Disorders: What You Need to Know
Tens of millions of Americans are affected by mental health disorders each year. Anyone can be affected by mental health disorders, regardless of age, race, gender, or socioeconomic status. Through recognizing how common mental disorders are, we gain a greater...
Anorexia vs. Bulimia: Understanding the Similarities and Differences
Anorexia and bulimia are both eating disorders, and eating disorders affect at least 9% of the worldwide population. To date, they are among some of the deadliest mental illnesses, ranking only second to opioid overdoses. Unfortunately, eating disorders and body...
What Is Psychosis?
Approximately 3% of people in the United States will experience psychosis at some point in their lives. This means that each year, about 100,000 American adults and teenagers will experience a psychotic episode. Psychosis affects people’s minds so that they don’t...