Swipe Wise: A Practical Guide to Today’s Dating Apps
If you have been single at any point in the past two decades, you have probably tried online dating at least once…or twice, or maybe more.
Caren Jacobs
Healing From the Inside Out: How Vagal Nerve Toning Transforms Trauma
In the aftermath of trauma, it can be challenging to move forward. It is common for many people to mark their lives by what it was like before the traumatic experience and then after.
Holiday Cheer and Single Blues: How to Navigate the Holidays When You are Alone
Whether you’re newly single, long-term solo, or somewhere in between, navigating the holidays alone can stir up everything from peace and empowerment to loneliness and comparison.
How to Cope with Seasonal Depression (SADD)
For many people, the changing of seasons is not always the best time of the year. For some, it’s a time when their mood changes as quickly as the weather. While many people associate seasonal depression with wintertime, it can occur at any point in the year.
Looking for Love? 4 Tips for Managing Anxiety About Dating
You reach for your phone and unlock it. After navigating through several of your apps, you find the one you’re looking for. You click on the icon and the home page opens. Pictures of random people you’ve never met fill your screen. After staring at the screen for longer than you’d like to admit, you … Read more
Is Trauma Your Primary Connection to Each Other? Understanding Trauma Bonds
Have your friends and family become concerned about your relationship? Do you feel that you constantly have to vie for your partner’s affection and worry about whether you will be verbally or physically abused if you do not please them? Do you defend them nonetheless? You could be part of a trauma bond, where trauma … Read more
Supporting LGBTQ Teens who are Getting Bullied
Unfortunately, bullying is not uncommon. According to the National Bullying Prevention Center, one in five students report being bullied. One of the most common reasons reported for bullying is sexual orientation. Nearly 70 percent of students identifying as LGBTQ+ reported being bullied at school or online. Teens who are being bullied might not want to … Read more
How Can EMDR Help Anxiety?
Trauma is when you experience terror after a trigger brings up a terrible memory. What makes trauma so powerful is that these are unprocessed memories. When trauma occurs, it gets locked in your body or frozen in time, where it lies unprocessed. And because of this, the traumatic memory has no time stamp. So, experiencing … Read more
The Sleep-Depression Relationship
We all feel down from time to time. But when you are depressed, you tend to go through long, extended periods of feeling sad and hopeless. This can last for a few weeks, or even months and years. Depression is not just feeling sad – it can be a serious mental disorder where you struggle … Read more
5 Tips to Begin Healing from Childhood Trauma
Childhood trauma can leave a mark on you. As a child, your brain is still growing and developing. When trauma interrupts this process, it can limit early brain development and have long-lasting effects. With the experience of childhood trauma, the traumatic memories are not able to be processed. They get stuck somewhere inside of you … Read more