Conflict can be stressful and leave us doubting ourselves and our relationships. However, just because you may run into challenges, it doesn’t necessarily mean that there is something wrong. In fact, conflict can be an integral part of a healthy relationship because, if managed correctly, it indicates that both partners are asserting themselves and negotiating.
Trauma ingrains painful memories so deeply that they distort the way we think, act, and feel—essentially constricting how we live our lives. Instead of being relegated to the past like most memories, trauma makes the experience a permanent fixture in the mind, a recurring telling of events that repeatedly brings the sensations, sounds, and imagery back into the present.
Grief isn’t a linear process and it can be brought on by range of life experiences - including but not just the loss of a loved one. To make it more complex, people experience grief and can be triggered very differently.
As therapists, we there a few reoccurring concerns that have come up from clients.
