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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...

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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...

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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,...

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Dissociative Amnesia in Women: Why Trauma Memory Gaps Happen

Women who have experienced trauma sometimes carry something harder to describe than a painful memory. They carry the absence of one. A period of time that they can’t...

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The Neuroscience of Somatic Trauma Memory

You are sitting in a restaurant. Nothing unusual is happening. The food is fine, the company is good, you have no particular reason to feel the way you suddenly feel,...

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Your Nervous System Can't Tell a Bad Ex from a Bear

There is something your nervous system does that your brain would never consciously allow: it treats a text notification from a toxic relationship with the same chemical...

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The Psychology Behind Adventure Therapy: Why Challenge Changes the Brain

Nobody's brain rewires itself because they had a nice, calm conversation about their feelings. That is not how neuroplasticity works.

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Clinical Currents: Connection as the Foundation of Recovery feat. Hailee Meeker, MAEd, LCMHCA, LCAS-A

At Momentum, clinical care is not something that sits on the surface. It shapes how we show up, how we build relationships, and how we make sense of what each young...

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How Physical Challenge Helps Heal Trauma & Addiction

Trauma does not live in the mind the way a memory does. It lives in the body. It shows up in the startle response that fires too fast, the chest that tightens in rooms...

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How Experiential Therapy Builds Confidence in Young Adult Addiction Recovery

A lot of people arrive at treatment without much evidence that they are capable of anything good. It’s a hard reality but it is what years of substance use tends to...