by Megan Wootten | May 28, 2025 | Trauma
On Friday, May 16th, 2025, a tornado tore through Clayton and parts of St. Louis with a force we rarely see. Lives were changed in an instant. Some lost homes, some lost businesses, and tragically, some lost loved ones. As a therapist who lives and works in this...
by Denise Fattic | Nov 25, 2024 | Trauma
My mother died somewhat unexpectedly on a Sunday morning. Her health had been declining and she was 81 years old, but nothing at the time seemed urgent—until it was. My father and I arrived at the hospital as her care team was performing CPR, and when we entered the...
by Ashley Rickert | Aug 18, 2021 | Trauma
When a traumatic event happens, there are parts of our brains that go offline, so to speak. What this means is that the parts of our brains that help us work through memories and our actions stop working in the way that we want them to—think spotty cell reception....
by Kristen Neal | May 19, 2021 | Addictions, General, Trauma
It hits you like a ton of bricks one day, “Oh my gosh, I-love-an-addict.” Then you wonder how you didn’t see it all along. It seems so simple, right? Addicts should be easy enough to spot. They are walking around drunk or high, or both, all day and it would seem that...
by Kristen Neal | Oct 12, 2020 | Trauma
Studies of mass trauma have been conducted by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y., and others have previously established that survivors of the Holocaust have altered levels of circulating...