by Camila Williams | Aug 31, 2018 | coping, Self Care
You probably have a first aid kit somewhere in your home, car, or work. You are ready for any mishap from a paper-cut to a gash. Are you as prepared for a mental health emergency? You know when you feel that panic attack coming on, or your anger is going...
by Camila Williams | Aug 29, 2018 | Book Review, coping, Uncategorized
The Five Ways We Grieve by Susan Berger reviews the different ways that people respond to death and grief. I personally gravitate more towards Grieving Mindfully by Sameet Kamur when it comes to books on coping with grief. Both books stress that the healthy way to...
by Camila Williams | Aug 25, 2018 | coping, PTSD, Uncategorized
The arousal symptoms of PTSD most commonly overlap with the symptoms of Panic and Anxiety. Imagine your body is like a car engine. With PTSD (and anxiety/panic) your engine is always revved up and ready to go. It’s like you have your foot on the gas pedal and on the...
by Camila Williams | Aug 21, 2018 | Book Review
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller is intended for an audience of business employees who are trying to be more productive and thus hopefully more successful. This book was recommended to me when I was starting up...
by Camila Williams | Aug 17, 2018 | coping, PTSD
I previously wrote about understanding the symptoms of PTSD here and learning about how it develops and factors that maintain it here. Today’s focus is how to cope with the cluster of PTSD symptoms called re-experiencing or “intrusive” symptoms. What are...
by Camila Williams | Aug 14, 2018 | Book Review
The Optimistic Child by Martin Seligman, Ph.D. teaches you how to “immunize” your child against depression by teaching them how to think optimistically. Dr. Seligman is the former president of the American Psychological Association and the founder of the Positive...
by Camila Williams | Aug 11, 2018 | PTSD
Last week we reviewed what PTSD looks like (you can read about those symptoms here). This week we are going to review why PTSD develops. The focus will be on the role our Fight – Flight – Freeze survival response system plays in the development and maintenance of...
by Camila Williams | Aug 7, 2018 | Book Review
The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha originally started as a letter to his unborn child about how to be happy. He reviews 9 “secrets” that will make you happy, which I paraphrase below: Be happy first: hard work and success won’t bring you happiness, you have to...
by Camila Williams | Aug 2, 2018 | coping
A lot of my work is focused on helping people work through trauma. An inherent part of the process is working through grief. Trauma brings with it so many losses. I previously wrote about these losses in another guest blog here. Recently, I contributed to an...
by Camila Williams | Jul 31, 2018 | Book Review
Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss by Sameet Kamur, Ph.D. is a wonderful book about coping with any type of loss. I like that it addresses the many types of loss that we experience throughout life such as breaking up,...
