Finding the Eye of the Storm: What Your Brain's Alarm System Is Trying to Tell You
Deep inside your brain sits a small structure called the amygdala. It has one job: spotting danger. When something feels threatening, it flips on like a switch, and your body floods with adrenaline before your thinking brain has any idea what's happening.
That is where fight, flight, freeze and fawn come from. None of them are choices. They are automatic ways of staying alive.
When the Fear of Losing a Child Gets in the Way of Loving Them
Why some parents who have lost a child before find it hard to feel close to the next one, and how therapy can help them bring the wall down.
Two Voices in One Room: Working with Ambivalence
How Motivational Interviewing helps when part of you wants to change — and part of you doesn't