What is Trauma Recovery Coaching and How Can It Help Me?
Q; What is trauma?
A: Trauma results when events occur that overwhelm a person's ability to cope with them. Trauma can have a long-lasting effect on people's lives, especially when the trauma happens in childhood.
Q: Specifically, what types of issues might be dealt with in a Trauma Recovery session?
A: Trauma may include, but not be limited to the following:
A: Trauma results when events occur that overwhelm a person's ability to cope with them. Trauma can have a long-lasting effect on people's lives, especially when the trauma happens in childhood.
Q: Specifically, what types of issues might be dealt with in a Trauma Recovery session?
A: Trauma may include, but not be limited to the following:
- physical, sexual, or emotional abuse
- substance abuse by a family member
- absent, neglectful, or abusive parent or guardian
- divorce
- death of a close loved one
- loss of home, or lack of stability due to frequent or sudden relocations
- witnessing a crime, or wartime act
- any loss that impacts a person's sense of safety and well-being
Q: How does a traumatic event in the past affect my life today?
A: When trauma occurs, we take protective measures to ensure our physical and emotional survival. The patterns of behavior we develop in times of crisis may serve us well at the time of the trauma, but may become self-limiting and destructive later in life when the protective behaviors are no longer needed.
Q: What are some signs or indicators that trauma may be negatively impacting my life today?
A: Some common patterns of behavior that arise from traumatic events include:
Q: What will Trauma Recovery Coaching do to help me address issues like these?
A: Trauma Recovery Coaching will help you identify the self-limiting behaviors that are keeping you from living your life at its fullest. We will then begin the process of reframing negative experiences to diminish their grip on your life today. Finally, we will put together a plan for making positive changes in health, relationships, and lifestyle habits to help you move beyond old patterns of thinking and interacting with others.
Trauma recovery coaching will help you move beyond the ties that bind you to the past and help you live more fully and contentedly in the present.
A: When trauma occurs, we take protective measures to ensure our physical and emotional survival. The patterns of behavior we develop in times of crisis may serve us well at the time of the trauma, but may become self-limiting and destructive later in life when the protective behaviors are no longer needed.
Q: What are some signs or indicators that trauma may be negatively impacting my life today?
A: Some common patterns of behavior that arise from traumatic events include:
- Persistent feelings of distrust or suspicion
- Defensiveness and a tendency to push people away
- Lack of ability to form close, intimate relationships with others, especially romantic partners
- Feelings of panic, fear, and threat even when a situation is safe and non-threatening
- Overwhelming need to control situations and manipulate the actions of others
- Sexual inhibition or the opposite, sexually compulsive behavior
- Feelings of insecurity or neediness even when receiving positive feedback from others
- A strong desire to hide from or isolate oneself from others
Q: What will Trauma Recovery Coaching do to help me address issues like these?
A: Trauma Recovery Coaching will help you identify the self-limiting behaviors that are keeping you from living your life at its fullest. We will then begin the process of reframing negative experiences to diminish their grip on your life today. Finally, we will put together a plan for making positive changes in health, relationships, and lifestyle habits to help you move beyond old patterns of thinking and interacting with others.
Trauma recovery coaching will help you move beyond the ties that bind you to the past and help you live more fully and contentedly in the present.
