“What if I don’t remember anything that happened to me?” This is a question that we get asked all the time as mental health counselors...

Fear based distraction is way that we can avoid thinking about things we don’t want to think about. Or feeling emotions that we don’t want to feel. This is very common in survivors of untreated trauma. Fear based distraction is a way for survivors of trauma to stay busy so they do not have to be reminded of traumatic memories from the past. Distraction is a form of avoidance. But avoidance is a funny thing. The more we avoid something, the more we are actually making the an

An estimated 40 million adults in the United States, 18% of the population, suffer with an anxiety disorder. 8.2% of the adult population struggle with a form of depression. (ADAA 2016) If you do the math, that’s 26.2%…over 1/4 of the US adult population! In children, the statistic is 1 in 8. (ADAA 2016) The numbers are staggering. Prescription medication is usually the first line of defense for treating these disorders. But anxiety and depression are also symptoms of unr