Within the last week, there were public shootings in El Paso, Dayton, and right here in the Greater Birmingham Area. Twenty-one people were killed in an El Paso Walmart, nine people were killed in a popular nightlife district in downtown Dayton, and there was also a...
Our last post discussed the relatively new discovery that our brains can be rewired long after childhood. Today’s post will discuss some of what happens inside the brain during a trauma response – whether responding to current or past memories. When humans are...
This is the first in a series on the brain and trauma. Why is the brain so important when it comes to addressing trauma? While most of us think our trauma comes from an event or series of events (the bad things that happen), the physical/mental/emotional responses...
