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How EMDR Healed My Trauma

It is through my own experience with loud sound as the most healing salve I have ever known that I recognize how deeply many of us want to feel better.

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His Story Continues

My brother’s story is forever a part of my story, to be shared through me.

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7 Lessons I Learned as a Survivor of a Friend's Suicide

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A Cultural Experience of Recovery

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Addressing Mental Health Barriers in the AAPI Community

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Navigating Trauma as a Refugee

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I Think I Might Be Gay

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Advocating for Veterans’ Mental Health Gave Me a New Purpose in Life

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Discovering Self-Love and Acceptance after Tragedy and Mental Illness

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What No One Told Me About Being in a Psych Hospital

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It’s Not the Hormones: Reflections on a Teenage Girl’s Traumatic Crisis

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Engaging Your Community in the Mental Health Conversation

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Type 2 Diabetes and Mental Health: Exploring the Connection

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Children Should Not Have to Be Resilient

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Facing the Aftermath of Abuse: My Ongoing Journey Towards Healing

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Finding Connection: Helping Child Sexual Abuse Survivors in Marginalized Communities

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Thoughts on The Pandemic, Trust Issues and Trauma Survivors

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Expressive Arts Therapy: A Sensory Approach to Trauma Healing

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Breaking Through Family Trauma: Finding Healing and Forgiveness

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Navigating Secondary PTSD: Surviving the War That Came Home

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What It’s Like to Inherit Trauma

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What I Wish I Had Known About Stigma: I Don’t Want to be “Normal”

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DID Stories Are Riddled with Stigma: I Want to Tell a More Accurate One

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Derealization: The Symptom That Makes the World Feel Unreal

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When Trauma Is Triggered at Work

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How Walking Has Helped Me with My PTSD Recovery

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Why Mourning for the Self Is a Necessary Part of Healing

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Weaving the Threads of Healing Through Writing

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Discrimination in Academia

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Exploring the Connection Between Trauma Healing and Physical Health

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Veterans’ Mental Health Myths That Should Be Dispelled

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The Truth About Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Six Underrated Depictions of PTSD in Movies and TV

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Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Misrepresented Diagnosis

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How a School Project Helped Me Face My Trauma

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How Biking Helped My PTSD

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The Pain of Not Seeking Help for My PTSD

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Black History Month: Writing This Triggers My Anxiety

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Trauma in Children of Latinx Immigrants

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My Experience with a Catatonic-like State

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Six Self-Care Tips on Overcoming Abuse-Related Trauma

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7 Tools for Managing Traumatic Stress

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What Safety Means as a Trauma Survivor

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How Therapy Helped Me Manage Trauma

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How PTSD Affected My Life

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5 Reminders for Survivors of Trauma

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5 Ways You Can Support Veterans’ Mental Health

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PTSD is More Likely in Women Than Men

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Experiencing Both Perspectives of EMDR: Provider and Patient

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The Treatment of Choice for Trauma

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Combatting the Loneliness of Mental Illness

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Raising Children with Mental Illness

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How I Healed Myself of Shame

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When Your Parents Have Mental Illness: Healing Childhood Trauma

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The Problem with Yelling

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Motherhood and Your Mental Health

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PTSD and Trauma: Not Just for Veterans

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What You Should Know About Toxic Stress

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"All the Bright Places" Shines a Light on Love & Loss

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Love Our Vets: Restoring Hope for Families of Veterans with PTSD

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Riding the Shark: Surviving Crisis/Catastrophe

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Police Perspective: Overcoming PTSD

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Police Perspective: The impact of trauma on law enforcement spouses

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Police Perspective: The Man in the Mirror

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Clay Hunt Act Serves to Prevent Veteran Suicide

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What’s New on the NAMI Bookshelf?

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Learning to Survive When It’s Your Job to Witness Tragedies

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NAMI Homefront: Helping Families and Supporting Service Members

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Remembering Our Veterans and their Families

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Are You Haunted by Halloween Stigma? Here’s What to Do

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Veterans, NAMI, a Summit and Pizza

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Cante' Wast'e Win: Breaking the Cycle of Historical Trauma

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Never Give Up Hope: Joplin and NAMI Volunteers Everywhere

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