Category: All Trauma

How Accident Trauma Can Affect You

Posted on February 6th, 2024 A car accident at night with a tow truck in the background

If you or a loved one are struggling to deal with the aftereffects of an accident, then it’s likely that you’re experiencing accident trauma. Accidents such as vehicle accidents, terrible sports injuries, and more can have a significant impact on a person’s emotional, mental, and physical well-being. After an accident, many people focus on healing […]

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What is Accident Trauma?

Posted on January 26th, 2024 A man kneeling by a tree with his head in his hands and a crashed car in the background

Accidents, whether it’s in the form of a car accident, an accident at work, or any other form of traumatic event, can have a lasting physical and emotional impact. When you’ve been involved in a traumatic event, doctors, friends, and family tend to focus on fixing the obvious physical injuries but can neglect the emotional […]

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Infidelity PTSD: Symptoms and Healing

Posted on July 3rd, 2023 An unhappy couple sitting on the couch

Infidelity is traumatic. There’s no other way to put it. It causes intensely painful emotions and memories for the person on the receiving end of the infidelity that can last long after they have found out about it. In fact, they could experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including intrusive thoughts, insomnia, flashbacks, nightmares, […]

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What is Internalized Homophobia?

Posted on April 17th, 2023 A teen hugging his knees on some steps

There’s no denying that the world has made great strides in recent years when it comes to promoting the acceptance of those within the LGBTQ+ community. Same-sex marriage is now legal in most ‘first world’ countries, and the celebrated community gay pride events are helping heterosexual people interact, understand, and embrace LGBTQ+ people in a […]

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Trauma and the LGBTQ+ Community

Posted on April 14th, 2023 A gay couple angrily look back at a teenager

Trauma is best described as “the lasting emotional response that often results from living through a distressing event.” A traumatic event can include everything from the death of a loved one, a major injury, and a natural disaster to bullying, sexual abuse, and much more. Experiencing a traumatic event often impacts the sense of safety, […]

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Teen Mental Health & Social Media: Is It Big Tech’s Time of Reckoning?

Posted on April 4th, 2023 A teenager looking at his phone in bed

In the UK in 2017, 14-year-old Molly Russell took her own life. Distressing images, videos and material about depression and suicide were found on her Instagram account. In the USA in 2019, 16-year-old Ian Ezquerra was found dead, with similarly disturbing material found on his smartphone across a variety of social media platforms. The last […]

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My Partner is Transitioning: How Can I Support Them?

Posted on March 1st, 2023 A person holds up a sign with the transgender sign on it

If your partner has come out to you as trans, and you’ve done enough thinking, exploring, and discovering to decide that you are going to stay in the relationship, then it can be difficult to understand how you can support them through their transition. It’s going to be a time of conflict, with a whole […]

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How to have a Trauma Free Xmas…

Posted on December 20th, 2018 The Haven Divorce Retreat - Adele Theron

Hey, there. I wanted to make a video just before Christmas time…     So, we got quite a few questions and comments from people from our website that ask things like how do we prevent all the drama around Christmas… or people commenting that they find Christmas really stressful and challenging. And it is […]

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Overcome Any Life Event – Tip #3

Posted on August 2nd, 2018

The Victory Mindset   Hey, this is Adele from Naked Recovery… So, I want to thank everybody who gave us so many awesome comments about my first tips video in advance of the webinar, thank you. Thank you for watching the tips video, and here’s the third one. We wanted to make sure that we really […]

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Overcome Any Life Event – Tip #2

Posted on July 27th, 2018

The Healing Blockage Hey there, this is Adele from Naked Recovery. In preparation for our webinar next week, I wanted to just put a few tips videos together to cover some of the other tips and techniques around how to overcome any torment that has happened to you in life.  Now, it doesn’t matter what […]

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