What is EMDR and how does it work? Ok, so you may already know that early childhood memories impact our beliefs about ourselves, life, and the world. Later memories of shocking or disturbing content do the same thing, and those beliefs about ourselves lie so deep in our core that they impact the way we thoughtfully and somatically (body responses) interpret our experiences onward. Those interpretations influence our feelings, moods, self-esteem, and behavior, not to mention,

Recently, members of PWH’s support group for new moms emphasized a problem. A problem that they grapple with as individuals, having to do with their values, identities, wishes, needs, and the natural oscillations that happen when one becomes a parent. This is also a social problem. The first “small talk” or “getting to know you” question people tend to ask in American culture is “What do you do?” The underlying question being--"What do you do for work?" And, underlying statem

So, is pain all in your head? Our society has created this idea about pain being a direct result of a wound, injury, or illness. But, pain is actually a construct. It's NOT that the pain is all in your head, as in, it's imaginary! It's that pain is actually a signal created by the nervous system and sent to the brain when the body senses something that it perceives as a threat to the body, not by the tissues themselves. Sometimes those perceptions and alert signals that the b