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  • Is it self-care or an excuse?

    Is it self-care or an excuse?

    Maybe this kind of self-love encourages laziness and is too forgiving. Maybe it’s the easy way out: not doing something because I don’t feel like doing it and making that be okay because I’m “putting myself first” and “taking care of myself mentally/emotionally.”

  • Trauma Stored in the Body

    Trauma Stored in the Body

    Today, experts are studying “embodied trauma,” or when someone has unexplainable physical symptoms that are assumed to be caused by past traumas. Anecdotally, clinical psychologist and dance/movement therapist Ilene Serlin, PhD, says some of her clients who can’t verbally express what they’re feeling or talk about their trauma sometimes experience physical symptoms associated with that trauma. Through her…