LIFE TRAUMA INVENTORY

 

1.  Have you ever been in a serious disaster (for example, an earthquake, hurricane, large fire, explosion)	__Yes __No
2.  Have you ever seen a serious accident (for example, a bad car wreck or an on-the-job accident)	__Yes __No

This is from the article, Seven Jobs That Will Make You Sick.  Notice that Firefighters are at high risk of heart attacks, in part, because of the psycholigcal stress they endure when fighting fires.

This caught my eye especially because when ...

I haven't spent much of my life looking at cartoons but I have heard that they can have a deeper message.  In this case, I think it does.  We all have a dark side and while it is easy to 'project' this onto others, consider this for the ...

One of the tasks in EMDR therapy is to make a list of the ten most highly charged emotional things that have happened to you.  Usually, this would be over your lifetime; however, this could also be for a recent trauma or event that would have several different aspects to it. 

We do this to help identify targets upon which to do the EMDR processing.

• Think of times when you were emotionally upset.
• Something unfair, threatenting or life-threatening was done to you or someone close to you.
• You witnessesed or experienced an emotionally charged event.

Take it easy on yourself when doing it. 

Notice how difficult it is to start it. 

Notice feelings that arise while doing it.

Notice that these things all have an

Jordan Shafer, MS, LPC, EMDR Certfied Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant shares some ideas about using EMDR with couples. It could be used in conjunction with the regular martial counseling in whatever style or mode it is being done. The EMDR processing resolves and integrates the emotional memories that are stored in the mid-brain, when that happens each member of the couple is better able to tolerate inevitable emotional discomfort.

Jordan shares some ideas on how to move beyond doing EMDR processing on the Big T and Little T traumas and doing it with times when people get angry. Anger situations happen in public when shopping, in families, couples and relationships, on the road and at work so there are lots of opportunities to do EMDR.

A Traumatic Toll on Lawyers and Judges

This article addresses the toll of hearing and seeing trauma on the legal professions - I would submit that more than just lawyers and judges are ...

THE EVOLUTIONARY LAYERS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN The first time you observe the anatomy of the human brain, its many folds and overlapping structures can seem very confusing, and you may wonder what they all mean. But just like the anatomy of any other