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19 Sep

7 Ways To Improve Distress Tolerance

  7 Ways To Improve Distress Tolerance The ability to manage one’s emotional state in response to stress-inducing factors is what is called distress tolerance. Some people can encounter incredibly stressful situations and remain calm and composed; taking a logical approach to manage a situation and then move beyond the situation and resume where they left off before the intrusion. This is a wonderful character trait that is part of genetics, how they were raised, their present...

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18 Sep

My Inner Child Helped Me Heal

*Trigger Warning My Inner Child Helped Me To Heal The memories of my abuse are fractured, like a mirror shattered into a billion pieces. How many times did it happen? I don’t know. How old was I when it started? I don’t remember. But my most vivid memory is when I am nine, I think. I am in my cousin’s bedroom and my uncle is in the bed. I have no idea why I...

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10 Aug

Trauma Impacts The Body & Mind

  Trauma Impacts The Body & Mind I had unusual physical symptoms for more than a decade that no medical professional was able to diagnose. In 2005 when my first son was born I started to experience unusual symptoms such as intense, unusual fatigue, left-sided headaches, tingling in my left hand and foot, mild balance and perceptual difficulties, attention, and memory problems to name a few. For years I saw specialists, had MRIs and follow-ups all to...

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06 Aug

Adapting To Digital Peer Support

Adapting To Digital Peer Support To find any degree of healing is to find hope, lightness, and compassion you never thought possible. Since the start of the COVID pandemic, The Gatehouse remains committed to the healing of adult survivors impacted by childhood sexual abuse. As any organization would agree, adapting to working remotely and without personal contact has had its challenges and yet we did it, are doing it and will continue to offer the programs...

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