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Reduce Overwhelm and Anxiety Series — Part V: Self-Holding

July 12, 2019 by Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

reduce overwhelm with self-holding

This post is part of the Reduce Overwhelm & Anxiety Series. Everyone experiences anxiety or a sense of overwhelm from time to time. This can be especially true for Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), who can become overstimulated more easily due to a more “finely-tuned” nervous system. Additionally, folks with PTSD or complex trauma can feel […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Coping, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, mindfulness, Overwhelm, Self-care, therapy, Trauma, Trauma / PTSD Tagged With: anxiety, coping, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, overstimulated, overwhelm, PTSD, self-care, self-holding, therapy, trauma

Reduce Overwhelm and Anxiety Series — Part IV: Use Your Imagination

July 5, 2019 by Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

This post is part of the Reduce Overwhelm & Anxiety Series. Everyone experiences anxiety or a sense of overwhelm from time to time. This can be especially true for Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), who can become overstimulated more easily due to a more “finely-tuned” nervous system. Additionally, folks with PTSD or complex trauma can feel […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Coping, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Overwhelm, Self-care, therapy, Trauma, Trauma / PTSD Tagged With: coping, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, imagination, overstimulated, overwhelm, PTSD, self-care, therapy, trauma, visualization

Reduce Overwhelm and Anxiety Series — Part III: Physical Grounding

June 28, 2019 by Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

This post is part of the Reduce Overwhelm & Anxiety Series. Everyone experiences anxiety or a sense of overwhelm from time to time. This can be especially true for Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), who can become overstimulated more easily due to a more “finely-tuned” nervous system. Additionally, folks with PTSD or complex trauma can feel […]

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Reduce Overwhelm and Anxiety Series — Part II: Present Moment Focus

June 21, 2019 by Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

This post is part of the Reduce Overwhelm & Anxiety Series. Everyone experiences anxiety or a sense of overwhelm from time to time. This can be especially true for Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), who can become overstimulated more easily due to a more “finely-tuned” nervous system. Additionally, folks with PTSD or complex trauma can feel […]

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Reduce Overwhelm and Anxiety Series — Part I: Breathing Techniques

June 14, 2019 by Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

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Everyone experiences anxiety or a sense of overwhelm from time to time. This can be especially true for Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), who can become overstimulated more easily due to a more “finely-tuned” nervous system. Additionally, folks with PTSD or complex trauma can feel anxious and overwhelmed, especially when triggered or due to being hyper-alert.  […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Coping, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, mindfulness, Overwhelm, Self-care, therapy, Trauma, Trauma / PTSD Tagged With: breathing, coping, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, mindfulness, overstimulated, overwhelm, PTSD, self-care, therapy, trauma

Healing from Childhood Emotional Neglect

April 18, 2019 by Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) can often be difficult to recognize. CEN is elusive. It represents something a child is missing at home rather than something that was there (such as physical abuse). Many adults don’t even know they experienced emotional neglect. When emotions were expressed, or the child had a need, they were ignored or […]

Filed Under: Abuse/Neglect, CEN, Emotional neglect, Self-care, Trauma, Trauma / PTSD Tagged With: CEN, childhood emotional neglect, coping, emotional neglect, PTSD, therapy, trauma

5 Daily Self-Care Exercises for Survivors of Abuse

March 28, 2019 by Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

Unfortunately, being a survivor of trauma or abuse is exceedingly common. According to the National Children’s Alliance, nearly 700,000 children are abused in the U.S. annually. And according to the Center for Disease Control’s 2017 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, nearly 1 in 4 adult women and approximately 1 in 7 adult men […]

Filed Under: Abuse/Neglect, Coping, Self-care, Self-Esteem, Sexual Abuse / Trauma, Trauma, Trauma / PTSD Tagged With: abuse, coping, PTSD, self-care, sexual abuse, survivor, trauma

Why EMDR is a Helpful Treatment for Sexual Abuse Survivors

March 12, 2019 by Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

In the United States, one in three women and one in six men will experience some form of sexual abuse in their lifetime, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). When sexual abuse happens, many people having difficulty coping with the experience or express their feelings in a healthy way. The result is a […]

Filed Under: Issues for Women, Sexual Abuse / Trauma, Trauma, Trauma / PTSD Tagged With: EMDR, PTSD, sexual abuse, therapy, trauma, treatment

How Meditation Can Help Manage Symptoms of Trauma

February 27, 2019 by Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

Meditation offers powerful benefits, yet many people are confused as to what exactly those benefits are.  Basically, meditation allows you to be more aware and mindful to the present moment. The purpose is to take you from a state of distracting, busy mind to a sense of inner calm. I’d imagine most of us could […]

Filed Under: Coping, Religion / Spirituality, Trauma, Trauma / PTSD Tagged With: coping, meditation, PTSD, trauma

5 Techniques to Manage Flashbacks

February 22, 2019 by Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

Flashbacks are one way our brain tries to process traumatic experiences. But what tends to happen is, our subconscious goes to our storage cabinet to access some important memories regarding the event, and everything can come out of the cabinet all at once. This falling out or flashback experience can feel almost as traumatic as […]

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