“I mean, people have it worse than me,” an all too familiar statement. Trauma is one of the most misunderstood topics in mental health. It’s also one of the most common. Many people hear the word trauma  and immediately think of extreme events: active combat, assault, severe abuse, or life-threatening accidents. Those experiences absolutely can be traumatic, and trauma is not defined solely by what happened. Trauma is defined by how the experience was processed and stored in

Grief is sneaky. It doesn’t stay put in the moment it began. It weaves itself into the quiet corners of our lives, surfacing in places we don’t expect — a smell, a song, a season, a milestone, or a moment of joy we wish someone else could still witness. People often imagine grief as a storm that eventually passes, but in reality, it’s more like weather we live with — sometimes soft, sometimes heavy, and always part of the atmosphere of our lives. Grief is something every one

There’s a moment—often quiet, sometimes violent—when life as we knew it begins to shift, a stirring, a subtle nudge forward. The winds of...

Trauma refers to the psychological and emotional response that arises from distressing experiences, which can significantly impact an...