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People-Pleasing Behaviours: Understanding the Fawn Response in Complex Trauma
The fawn response, a term coined by therapist Pete Walker, is a trauma survival mechanism where individuals instinctively seek to please others to reduce perceived danger, especially social or relational threats.
Grief That Doesn’t Go Away: When Loss Becomes Complicated and How Healing Is Possible
When grief becomes persistent, intense, and begins to interfere with everyday functioning, it may be a sign of complicated grief, also known as prolonged grief disorder, which may indicate the individual could benefit from some form of bereavement support to help them process the loss.
What You’re Avoiding is Running the Show
Avoidance can look like control and independence. It can also look like strength. But if we’re honest, avoidance shrinks our lives around structuring our days around what we don’t want to feel.
High-Functioning Alcohol Use: When ‘Coping’ Quietly Becomes Dependence
At Camino Recovery, we often treat clients who never imagined they would need help with alcohol. Some are high-performing professionals, parents, entrepreneurs, and even caregivers – people who have built full, meaningful lives and carry significant responsibilities. However, underneath the mask of stability, alcohol gradually becomes a silent coping mechanism that becomes harder and harder to manage over time.
What Is Cognitive Dissonance? How Conflicting Beliefs Keep You Stuck
You’re driving home, promising yourself this is the last time. You wake up the next morning and think, I can’t keep doing this. Then a
Why Some Relationships Improve in Recovery and Others Collapse
When someone starts recovery, everyone around them is affected. The change simply cannot stay hidden. It alters conversations, habits, and expectations. Sometimes it strengthens connection, but sometimes it exposes how much of that connection relied on old coping patterns.
Modern Addictions: What We’re Struggling With Now
Addiction will sneak in and wear the disguise of normal life. What we call addiction is shaped by culture, and every society has its own
EMDR and Addiction Recovery: How Trauma Processing Reduces Relapse Risk
EMDR is a pioneering trauma therapy designed to help individuals reprocess traumatic memories in a safe, structured way with the guidance of an experienced therapist, helping to reduce the traumatic charge of past memories and experiences.
Beyond Talk Therapy: Why Body-Based Approaches Are Essential for Trauma Recovery
This article explores why traditional talk therapy, which involves a lot of reflection, emotional unpacking and talking, may not be enough in trauma healing, built on the concept that ‘overthinking is underfeeling’.
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