The Hope Preserve Blog
The Process 𖥸
(Digging Deeper)
This blog is for you. Learn more about who you’re working with and what it’s like to process your life with the various techniques available. You always have a choice about what feels safe to bring up and how you feel comfortable to process it.
Our brains, entire nervous systems, and hearts do their most efficient and longterm restoration when we feel the most safe, heard, and relaxed. We hope what we share helps. Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns about working with us.
Disclaimer: Any information provided in any of these blogs is for educational and informational purposes only, should not be taken as personal advice or guidance in any way, and does not imply that you are a client of The Hope Preserve. We tailor all techniques and interventions to clients’ particular and evolving situations based on their personal safety, ability, functioning, and needs. No person is a client unless they have completed and signed our intake paperwork, and have completed a session with us in the last six calendar weeks.
Content warning: These blog pages may address trauma and some of the ways we work with people to help care for it. You may encounter references to verbal, emotional, physical, spiritual, sexual, or other abuses and trauma; high control groups and relationships; victim blaming, shaming, and denial; suicidality and self-harm; dysfunctional families, family loyalties, developmental trauma and neglect, and ongoing chronic traumas; chronic and hidden illness; assault and stalking; and other forms of hurtful behavior. We encourage you to care for yourself however is best for you right now. Feel free to reach out with questions or set up a free phone consult instead of reading.
Introduction to Brainspotting & EMDR Therapy
Brainspotting and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) offers a therapeutic approach to reprocessing traumatic memories in a gentler way. It can help you be in the presence of your triggers without your stomach tying in knots or having your day ruined.
How Our Childhood Stays with Us
. . . it's essential to acknowledge that living in a constant state of stress can take a toll on your health.
How to Have Difficult Family Conversations that End in Connection
In great communication, finding the difference between behaviors and problems may seem tedious, but if we solely focus on the behavior no lasting change will occur.
Introduction to EMDR Therapy
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, offers a therapeutic approach to reprocessing traumatic memories in a gentler way. It can help you be in the presence of the your triggers without your stomach tying in knots or having your day ruined.
What Even Is Self-Care?
. . . Since bubble baths don’t always feel like effective self-care, then what is self-care?
Self-care is taking care of yourself so that you can show up in the world in a way that feels best for you . . .
What Is Sandtray Therapy?
. . . Sandtray sessions are all about you practicing trusting your mind, body, and inner wisdom . . . you are expressing yourself and finding a greater understanding of your world through the art of creating your sandtray . . .
Why Mindfulness?
. . . Mindfulness can feel really daunting at first glance. It may seem like you are supposed to somehow get rid of all your thoughts . . .
Being Yourself in Therapy
Therapists at The Hope Preserve understand that lots of people don’t thrive with the traditional talk therapy norms, so we focus on making a space that invites feeling present in whatever way works best for you .
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