Posts Tagged ‘trauma’
Moral Injury: Understanding Unseen Wounds.
By: Natalie DeSantis, RN Psychotherapist, RP (Qualifying). What is moral distress and moral injury? In recent decades, the terms moral distress and moral injury have been used to denote the unseen wounds formed in situations where individuals are required to act against their personal values, beliefs, ethics or morals (Williams et al., 2021). Traditionally, these…
Read MoreCoping with Grief: Healthy Ways to Navigate Loss and Bereavement
Written By Jonathan Rom, MD MPH RP (Qualifying). Figuring out what types of grief are “healthy” is a topic still debated by experts1. You may not be surprised to read this, given that each culture has different norms around grief. Most of these norms are hard to define and, sometimes, even harder to adhere to…
Read MoreCoping with Anxiety: Strategies for Managing Childhood Trauma
Written By Danika Ferreira Childhood is meant to be a time of innocence and joy, but for some, it can be marred by traumatic experiences such as abuse, neglect, or the loss of a loved one. Experiencing traumatic events during formative years can disrupt a child’s healthy emotional development and make it challenging for them…
Read MoreThe Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Anxiety
Written by Caitlin Stransky When we hear the term childhood, many of us begin to picture a time of joy, curiosity, innocence, and safety. Perhaps we imagine a time where one feels loved and protected by their family, which then lends to developing secure and healthy relationships later in life. While this is certainly an…
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