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Understanding Postpartum Depression: Symptoms, Effects, and Treatment

Understanding Postpartum Depression: Symptoms, Effects, and Treatment

by | Feb 5, 2025 | ,

How do you know if you have postpartum depression? Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious mental health condition that affects many new mothers in the weeks and months following childbirth. It is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, hopelessness, and worthlessness that go beyond the "baby blues" experienced by up to 80% of women after giving birth. PPD can have significant negative impacts on the mother, her baby, and her family and community if left untreated. In this article, we'll take...

The Blindspot: What We Cannot See in Ourselves and Society

The Blindspot: What We Cannot See in Ourselves and Society

by | Feb 5, 2025 | ,

What are our psychological blindspots in mass and individual psychology? "Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. We are all like the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there." - The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin The Lacuna There is a small region devoid of photoreceptors called the physiological blindspot or lacuna. Located where the optic nerve passes through the retina, this area literally cannot detect light. And yet, we don't perceive a black void in our...

Breaking Free from the Patterns of Narcissistic Abuse: Understanding the Lasting Impact

Breaking Free from the Patterns of Narcissistic Abuse: Understanding the Lasting Impact

by | Feb 4, 2025 |

"Faustus: Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistophilis: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason why he tempts us thus? Mephistophilis: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.)" Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus Narcissistic abuse is a particularly insidious form of emotional and psychological manipulation that can have profound and long-lasting effects on its survivors. Unlike physical abuse, which...

Recognizing the Unconscious Ways Childhood Trauma Still Shapes Your Life

by | Feb 4, 2025 |

"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds." Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss Childhood trauma casts a long shadow. Even if we can't remember the specifics of what happened to us, or even if we think we've "gotten over it," the impact of early trauma has a way of sneaking into our adult lives in subtle but profound ways. This is because trauma, especially when it occurs during the critical developmental years of childhood, doesn't just affect us...

How to Heal After Leaving a Toxic Relationship and Reclaim Your True Self

How to Heal After Leaving a Toxic Relationship and Reclaim Your True Self

by | Feb 4, 2025 |

How Therapy Can Heal Toxic Relationships Leaving a toxic relationship is one of the bravest and most difficult steps a person can take. Whether it was a romantic partner, a family member, or a close friend, extricating yourself from a relationship pattern that was destructive to your well-being is a profound act of self-love and self-preservation. However, the journey of healing doesn't end the moment you walk away. In many ways, that's just the beginning. The aftermath of a toxic relationship can leave you...

Existential Therapy and the Search for Meaning After Loss

Existential Therapy and the Search for Meaning After Loss

by | Feb 4, 2025 |

How can Existential Therapy Help? Loss is an inevitable part of the human condition. Whether through death, separation, or the myriad other ways in which life can strip us of what we hold dear, loss is a universal experience that touches every heart. And yet, despite its universality, the pain of loss is always profoundly personal. It is a unique kind of suffering that can shake the very foundations of our world, leaving us feeling lost, groundless, and alone. In the midst of this existential crisis, it is...

How Somatic Therapy Can Help You Process Trauma Stored in the Body

How Somatic Therapy Can Help You Process Trauma Stored in the Body

by | Feb 4, 2025 |

How Does Somatic Therapy Heal Trauma? Trauma is not just a psychological experience; it is a full-body experience. When we undergo a traumatic event, the impact is not confined to our thoughts and emotions, but is also deeply encoded in our physical being. Our bodies remember, even when our conscious minds may not. This understanding is at the heart of somatic therapy, a branch of psychotherapy that focuses on the interconnection of mind and body in the healing of trauma. Somatic therapists recognize that trauma...

Healing from Self-Sabotage

Healing from Self-Sabotage

by | Feb 4, 2025 |

Parts-Based Therapy and the Inner Critic Have you ever noticed a harsh, critical voice in your head that seems to constantly put you down? A voice that tells you you're not good enough, smart enough, attractive enough, or worthy enough? If so, you're not alone. This inner critic is a common experience for many people, and it can have a profound impact on mental health, self-esteem, and overall well-being. From the perspective of parts-based therapies like Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Voice Dialogue, this...

How do Archetypes Show Up in Relationships

How do Archetypes Show Up in Relationships

by | Feb 4, 2025 |

  The Role of Archetypes in Romantic Relationships: A Jungian Perspective on Love and Loss Love is one of the great mysteries and marvels of the human experience. It is a force that has inspired countless poems, songs, and stories throughout history, and that continues to shape our lives in profound and often unexpected ways. At the same time, love is also a source of some of our deepest pain and struggle. When relationships fail, when hearts are broken, we are confronted with equally profound feelings of...

How Family Scripts Can Control Your Life

How Family Scripts Can Control Your Life

by | Feb 4, 2025 |

Unpacking Family Scripts: How Your Childhood Narratives Shape Your Present The stories we tell ourselves about our lives are powerful. They shape our sense of identity, our relationships, and our very experience of reality. And perhaps no stories are more formative than the ones we inherit from our families of origin - the scripts that were written for us long before we had the awareness or agency to question them. Family scripts are the unspoken rules, roles, and narratives that govern how a family system...