by Dr Pam | Jan 16, 2026 | Blog
You Don’t Have To Do This Alone If you’re living with PTSD or complex trauma, chances are your nervous system has been working overtime for a very long time. Hypervigilance. Emotional numbness. Sudden waves of anxiety or shutdown. A body that reacts before your...
by Dr Pam | Jan 3, 2026 | Blog
I’d like to tell you folks how amazing you are. You’ve endure hardship during service and then face stigma and discrimination for being psychologically injured. It’s rewarding to support you. Yah know what’s NOT amazing? When you are injured and...
by Dr Pam | Dec 15, 2025 | Blog
I’m preparing to begin a day of VA exams. I’m just going to work again. Firing up the laptop, logging in, reviewing files, getting a cuppa. I look ahead for the day. I don’t wonder how they’re doing because I know. They’ve told me. They’re gearing up or crashing down...
by Dr Pam | Nov 22, 2025 | Blog
For a long time, the stigma has been that veterans apply for service connection for the compensation, but as for the compensation part, I defer that to Congress. Just know that it’s obvious that partial compensation de-incentives calling the doctor, which is...
by Dr Pam | Oct 25, 2025 | Blog
The PTS response is fear. That gut punch rolls out from our amygdala when trauma memory is activated, and then our brains can’t readily tell the difference between whether something bad is happening NOW, or whether something bad is ABOUT to happen. This immediate...
by Dr Pam | Sep 5, 2025 | Blog
Sexual trauma happens to girls and boys, women and men, in every sector of our society. We have a reasonable expectation that we are safe in all of these places. Shameful acts of violence occur in all these sectors, to shame a few. Homes – families, neighbors,...
by Dr Pam | Aug 7, 2025 | Blog
“Your brain became hard-wired for danger. That’s not weakness. That’s survival.” ~ Dr. Hall, Ph.D- PTSD Unplugged PTSD doesn’t care how strong you are. It doesn’t discriminate between medals, years of service, or how well you “held it together.” It shows up...
by Dr Pam | Jul 7, 2025 | Blog
The idea that we take all of our “hot trauma” and shove it into a box in our minds with a lid is a powerful metaphor for understanding how trauma affects our emotional landscape, particularly in relation to ptsd. The lid is unlocked when something around us looks,...
by Dr Pam | Jun 2, 2025 | Blog
To struggle like mad to try to climb its way out. I would actually be miming, in sort of a grand way, struggling with arms and legs flailing around. And we all know from watching movies or cartoons what happens when you try to struggle your way out of quicksand,...
by Dr Pam | Jun 2, 2025 | Blog
In 2025, we know that it’s essential to survival that our brains hotwire to what happened. We’re just lucky to be in safer times. If we stayed/lived in the warzone, or if we lived where perpetrators had the power to repetitively assault us, hypervigilance wouldn’t be...
