Few of us will get through life without experiencing unexpected, sudden, and intensely stressful events. When a stressor is unexpected, sudden, intense, and threatens our safety or that of someone else we love, it is often described as a "traumatic" experience. Traumatic experiences are an...
Being mom to school-aged kiddos brings its fair share of excitement, novelty, and challenges. This fall brought something entirely new to my attention. It started with an observation: my kids were really dysregulated and irritable as soon as they arrived home each day. As the...
Have you recently lost a spouse, partner, child, parent, sibling, extended family member, friend, or pet? Grief after losing a loved one (also known as “bereavement”) can be one of the hardest experiences to carry as human beings. To help you get through this difficult...
You have likely heard about the relationship between stress and health outcomes. However, what matters more than "stress" itself is the pattern of the stress and our response to it! Chronic, repetitive stress, without opportunities for rest and recovery from the physiological and emotional effects...