by Deborah Cox | Jun 20, 2020 | anger, cultural healing, dissociation, EMDR, Mood, Relationships
“Angry People” So here’s where anger gets really complicated. Not only do we dissociate in response to anger triggers when we fear being angry . . . we numb our anger based on heavy grooming that starts as soon as we’re born. My client, David (not his real name),...
by Deborah Cox | Jun 15, 2020 | anger, Reconceive, Relational Cultural Theory, Uncategorized, Write and Heal
Anger Wisdom Means Knowing Our Triggers Here’s the beginning of one of my big anger triggers. When I was eleven, a younger kid who came to our house for violin lessons wanted to feed my little red swordfish. I warned him not to add any flakes because I’d just...
by Deborah Cox | Jun 9, 2020 | anger, cultural healing, EMDR, Reconceive, Relational Cultural Theory
What IS Anger? People yelling at each other Beer cans smashed on tables Fistfights When you think of anger, what immediately comes to mind? Insight? I doubt it. Chairs thrown through windows? People out of control? Someone getting shot in the face? Obscenities...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 13, 2018 | Becoming More of Your True Self, EMDR, Feel Better, following inspiration, Therapy
Lift Up & Away from Religious Trauma Fiction (and memoir) reorganizes our internal narratives, and allows us to try on the emotional resources of others. It does this, not by selling us products or threatening us with what we MUST-do-or-be-damned, but by...
by Deborah Cox | Feb 22, 2018 | Coaching For the Therapist, Connect, EMDR, Feel Better, Therapy
ReConceive: a Podcast about All Kinds of Healing My dear friend, Melissa Sundwall, a great therapist who also happens to be a lot younger than me, says: “Let’s do a podcast.” And I say, “What’s a podcast?” That literally happened. About a year ago. So we teamed...
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