Stress can be acute, chronic, cumulative, mild, or immense. The STRESS acronym is a helpful tool to manage stress in any form, and it’s adaptable to your unique needs. These five steps may help you bolster yourself to handle stress...

People recovering from trauma, especially those living with conditions like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Complex PTSD, or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), often experience a mismatch between what the conscious mind knows and what the body feels or understands. “Bottom-up” therapy approaches...

I first began to understand moral injury as a therapist working in a residential trauma treatment program for military veterans. I had quite a bit of experience working with active service members in outpatient settings prior to taking this position, and that may be why moral injury didn’t present so clearly to me before. Like PTSD, moral injury may not set in clearly until a person has gotten out of the environment associated with the disturbance. Veterans in this residential program...