Showing posts with label emotional numbing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emotional numbing. Show all posts
Monday, June 9, 2025

How to Stop Living Your Life on Autopilot

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What is Autopilot Mode? Autopilot is also known clinically as "cognitive disengagement." Living on autopilot happens when you live...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Emotional Regulation: What is the Difference Between Being Calm and Being Emotionally Numb?

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Over the years, working with clients who have unresolved trauma , I have discovered that many people don't understand the difference bet...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

How Can Unresolved Trauma Affect Your Ability to Feel Self Compassion?:

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For many people showing compassion towards others is a lot easier than feeling self  compassion (see my article:  Developing Self Compassion...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Experiential Therapy: Learning to Sense Emotions in Your Body As Part of Trauma Therapy

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One aspect of experiential psychotherapy  that's different from regular talk therapy is sensing emotions in the body.  Sensing emotions...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Books: On Chesil Beach: How the Entire Course of a Relationship Can Be Changed By "Doing Nothing"

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Usually, when you think of a relationship that doesn't work out, you think of something that one or both people actively did that result...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

When You Shut Down Emotional Pain, You Also Shut Down Potential Pleasure

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There are many people, who have a history of traumatic experiences and who could benefit from psychotherapy, but they never come to therapy....
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Self Abandonment: Part 1: What is Self Abandonment?

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In my prior articles, I've written about abandonment in terms of feeling or being abandoned by parents, romantic partners, and friends. ...
Monday, November 20, 2017

What Happens When You Numb Yourself to Your Traumatic Past?

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In a prior article, I discussed the effect of growing up in a family where you can't express your emotions (see my article:   Psychother...