Why Talking About Trauma Won’t Heal It—And Here’s What Does
Why Talking About Trauma Won’t Heal It—And Here’s What Does BestTherapy July 15, 2025 Blog Talking about trauma can offer insight, validation, and understanding—but it doesn’t fully heal what happened. If it did, most of us wouldn’t find ourselves in therapy for years, revisiting the same wounds and re-telling the same stories. We wouldn’t be […]
What No One Tells You About Trauma
What No One Tells You About Trauma BestTherapy July 15, 2025 Blog Trauma is widely misunderstood as a specific event—something terrible, violent, or life-threatening. But trauma isn’t the event itself. Trauma is what happens inside of us as a result of what happened to us. It’s our body and nervous system’s response to an overwhelming […]
What Slime Mold Teaches Us About Healing, Belonging, and Collective Intelligence
What Slime Mold Teaches Us About Healing, Belonging, and Collective Intelligence BestTherapy July 1, 2025 Blog There’s a creature so misunderstood, its very name provokes disgust. But this humble organism—slime mold—holds a key to understanding healing, relational intelligence, and the possibility of a more connected future. Slime mold doesn’t have a brain. It doesn’t have […]
The Psychology of Reaching: Why Connection Requires Courage
Trauma Healing Through Somatic Therapy: Reconnecting to Your Life Force Energy BestTherapy May 27, 2025 Blog How healing developmental trauma begins with remembering we belong to the earth—and to ourselves. From Developmental Trauma to Somatic Healing: My Journey I grew up queer and neurodivergent in a chaotic, violent, alcoholic family system in the South. Years […]
Trauma Healing Through Somatic Therapy: Reconnecting to Your Life Force Energy
Trauma Healing Through Somatic Therapy: Reconnecting to Your Life Force Energy BestTherapy May 27, 2025 Blog How healing developmental trauma begins with remembering we belong to the earth—and to ourselves. From Developmental Trauma to Somatic Healing: My Journey I grew up queer and neurodivergent in a chaotic, violent, alcoholic family system in the South. Years […]
Self Compassion: Focusing Technique
Self Compassion: Focusing Technique BestTherapy April 12, 2025 Blog Most of us are experiencing increased stress levels due to financial fears, social isolation, and health concerns as a result of COVID-19. When stress levels are high, our internal resources (like patience and resilience) get depleted. That means we are more likely to get irritated by […]
Sound Bath Therapy
Sound Bath Therapy BestTherapy April 12, 2025 Blog Sound bath therapy is a deeply immersive experience that supports developing the skill of full-body listening. The body can feel the vibrations as well as hear the tones. This kind of listening is profoundly nurturing to the mind and body. A sound bath is typically experienced lying […]
Parts Work: Internal Family Systems
Parts Work: Internal Family Systems BestTherapy April 12, 2025 Blog Connecting with the parts (our inner children) with curiosity towards them leads to compassion and clarity. Ultimately, self-love requires re-parenting ourselves. Most people are familiar with the idea of having an inner child. However, we are now coming to a basic understanding that we internalize […]
Journal Prompts for Healing Your Inner Critic
Journal Prompts for Healing Your Inner Critic BestTherapy February 24, 2025 Blog There are lots of valid reasons not to feel safe in the world: global warming, oppressive patriarchal systems, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism, etc. These systems thrive on keeping us small, afraid, and ashamed. That is why we must create a safe inner […]
The Fawn Response
The Fawn Response BestTherapy February 24, 2025 Blog We are biologically hardwired to seek attachment with our caregivers. We are driven to attach even if our caregivers are emotionally neglectful/unavailable, abusive, critical, shaming, etc. When we are children, we cannot escape our households and are forced into making the best of painful situations. This requires […]
