The Blog
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Healing From Emotionally Immature Parents
June 22, 2023
What Is An Emotionally Immature Parent? Emotionally immature parents can be recognized by their lack of...
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Healing from Trauma: Where to Start
June 22, 2023
Trauma has become such a mainstream word in today’s society, making it easy to forget that...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
July 29, 2022
What have we inherited from our parents and grandparents in addition to eye color, height, tastes,...
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Intergenerational Trauma
July 18, 2022
Most all of us grow up in the context of a family unit. This family unit...
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The Effects of Our Mothers’ Traumas on Our Mental Health
June 1, 2022
Mother to Son – Langston Hughes Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been...
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How Developmental Trauma Affects Attachment
February 28, 2022
Brain Development The human brain helps us process and understand our environment while also developing basic...
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Racial Trauma and Post-Traumatic Growth
January 28, 2022
Today, we will briefly explore what healing from racial trauma looks like through the lens of...
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When Healing is Lonely
August 23, 2021
Therapy as healing One of the best parts of this job is hearing people’s stories. I...
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[VIDEO] African American Teens in Foster Care
June 16, 2021
Hosted by therapist Alexandra Hoerr Candace is a clinical resident at Optimum Joy talking with Alex...
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Leave the Canoe: Outgrowing Your Defense Mechanisms
May 27, 2021
Defense mechanisms get a bad rap, but what are they really? Defense mechanisms are often misunderstood,...
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