Trauma on Vacation
What I have learned as a trauma survivor on vacation Growing up with developmental trauma I enjoyed the idea of traveling more than...
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From August 2019 posts are posted on the ETI Psychology Today blog
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Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Jul 31, 2019
- 1 min
Back to School With a Sensitive Kid?
Here are six ideas to manage routines in the school year. We are creatures of habit and everyone struggles with transitions to a certain...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Jul 8, 2019
- 2 min
What Parents Should Know About Infections and Mental Health
Some children and teens are needlessly told that something is wrong with them while they actually suffer from an underlying infection.
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Jun 4, 2019
- 10 min
Inflammation and Mental Health Symptoms
What you need to know about the root causes of mental health symptoms A decade ago, soon after I moved to Africa, I got sick a lot. I had...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- May 6, 2019
- 5 min
Adults Suffering from Developmental Trauma
Secure attunement framework for adult survivors of developmental trauma. After my two blog posts on Developmental Trauma (blog 1, post...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Apr 2, 2019
- 5 min
Happiness Is Not a Destination
Mental Health Response Sometimes Make Things Worse. Time for a Paradigm Shift Like others, I read social media posts, magazines, and...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Mar 4, 2019
- 5 min
The Pain of Trauma
After Winter Comes Spring What can a trauma survivor do when the pain of past trauma resurfaces and nothing works to make it better? As a...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Feb 2, 2019
- 10 min
What is Trauma?
What you need to know about trauma, and trauma therapy. Every week I am contacted by people struggling with the aftermath of trauma. Most...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Jan 4, 2019
- 5 min
Why You Should Be Mindless in 2019
Mindfulness and Mindlessness After Trauma One of the most dismaying results of trauma is that it often takes away from survivors things...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Nov 30, 2018
- 5 min
The Body and Trauma
While it is a source of pain, it also may be a resource for healing. Trauma deeply challenges the confidence of most survivors in...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Nov 6, 2018
- 5 min
If Trauma Is Transgenerational, So Are Resilience and PTG
Expand your perspective on resilience and post-traumatic growth. There is a lot being written these days on post-traumatic growth (PTG)...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Aug 21, 2018
- 8 min
What Is Developmental Trauma?
A framework for building secure attunement. Trauma therapists inevitably work with children and adults suffering from developmental...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Jul 25, 2018
- 6 min
I May Not Be the Right Therapist for You
Choose a trauma therapy approach and not a modality. Every week I am contacted by people from around the world desperate to find...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Jun 24, 2018
- 5 min
The Costs of Early Life Trauma
I am an immigrant. Married for over 10 years to an American husband, I am a therapist, teacher, trainer, and blogger. You might think...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- May 14, 2018
- 6 min
When is Therapy Inappropriate After Trauma?
Therapists are often contacted by people who have recently experienced a “critical incident”. Accidents, crime, violence, death,...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Apr 20, 2018
- 5 min
How to Maintain Progress After Trauma
A long quest to make the pain of trauma go away is part of the story for many trauma survivors. I know this story well because it’s also...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Apr 1, 2018
- 9 min
How Do You Lay a Foundation for Trauma Processing?
Clients are often surprised when I tell them that we won’t be actively working to bring their trauma history to the surface in therapy. ...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Feb 28, 2018
- 6 min
Trauma Survivors: Your Feelings are a Normal Response to an Abnormal Situation
Life has landed you in the community of trauma survivors. None of us is here by choice, but we do choose to support each other. From my...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Jan 18, 2018
- 7 min
Experiential Self-Regulation in Trauma Therapy
Emotions, Feelings, Sensations, and Self-Regulation Self-regulation is the ability to manage extreme emotions (positive or negative...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
- Dec 18, 2017
- 11 min
Attachment and Developmental Trauma: A Framework for Building Secure Attunement
For therapists working with clients with complex or developmental trauma, advances of the last decade in understandings of attachment...
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