Water Is One of the Oldest Trauma Treatments in Human History
Four thousand years before anyone used the word “therapy,” an Egyptian physician recorded the benefits of cold water immersion in a medical papyrus. The Greeks built...
What Twenty Years of Trauma Research Got Wrong About Resilience
Resilience started as a research concept describing how people adapted to adversity and then somehow got flattened into a character quality. It became something you...
The Difference Between Being Triggered & Being Wrong
Somewhere around 2015, the word "triggered" became a punchline. It got memed into a synonym for fragility, for thin-skinned overreaction, for people who needed to...
The Surprising Reason Group Therapy Works Better Than One-on-One for Some Trauma Survivors
Most people assume individual therapy is where the real work happens, and group therapy is the supplement to it. The private session with the clinician who knows your...
The Loneliest Disorder: Why Complex PTSD Gets Mistaken for a Personality Flaw
Complex PTSD wreaks havoc on your inner life. But what may be the more cruel aspect of CPTSD is what it does to the relationships around you. The ones most apt to help...
Clinical Currents: Recovery Happens Outside the Therapy Room Too feat. Lauren Roemer, MSW, LCSW-A, LCAS-A
At Momentum, clinical care shapes how we show up, how we build relationships, and how we make sense of what each young adult is carrying when they walk through our doors.
The BPD Diagnosis Was Built on a Bad Assumption About Women
Getting a borderline personality disorder diagnosis feels, to many women, like being told the problem lies in who they are. Not what happened to them. Not the chronic...
The Smile That Lies: Why So Many Traumatized Women Look Fine
Someone tells her she seems so put-together and she smiles because what else do you do with that. She has been put-together for so long she can no longer locate the seam...
It Was Never About Dying: Understanding Self-Harm in Women
Self-harm gets collapsed into suicidality in the public imagination so automatically and so completely that the two have become almost inseparable. A woman who hurts...
What 19th-Century 'Hysteria' Diagnoses Tell Us About How We Still Treat Women
In 1880, a woman in Paris could be admitted to a hospital, placed on public display in front of an auditorium of male medical students, and have her symptoms of anxiety,...