What is the Difference Between Big T and Little t Trauma?
Dr. Janice Caudill, PhD, CSAT-S, CCPS-S, CPTT-S, PRT, IAT, SEP
Learn the differences between big and small traumatic events.
Archive: Trauma Healing
Betrayal Trauma: Understanding Your Trauma Triggers
Trauma Triggers Trauma triggers are anything that serves as a reminder of painful events in your life. They can be people, places, things, or situations. Thoughts, feelings, and sensations may… Read more
Partners of Sex Addicts & Infidelity Survivors: Are You Stuck in a Victim Stance?
Partners of Sex Addicts & Infidelity Survivors: Are You Stuck in a Victim Stance? The legacy of any trauma is a sense of victimhood. Whether from a car wreck, or… Read more
Surviving Betrayal Abandonment: Infidelity Survivors & Partners of Sex Addicts
Abandonment feels like death. Or worse. In fact; for many of us, death sometimes sounds like a better alternative than abandonment. When our partner betrays us or leaves us for… Read more
The Gaslighting Pill in Infidelity & Sex Addiction: Separating Out the Kernel of Truth
Gaslighting is an insidiously effective tool of manipulation, most often used by the betraying spouse to protect secrets or avoid consequences. Gaslighting involves getting the target to ingest a special… Read more
Empowerment Toolbox: Empower Yourself with the Wonder Woman Pose
Ever notice Wonder Woman’s confidence? How she conveys her sense of power? How you know her strength is about more than just her muscles? That she completely trusts that… Read more
Making Life Work for You
Life will work for me when I realize . . . the only walls, locked doors and prisons in my life are the ones that I have built. Mental Health… Read more
Partners of Sex Addicts: Sex Addiction Induced Trauma
I recently came across an article in The National Psychologist by Dr. Omar Minwalla. Dr. Minwalla is a psychologist, clinical sexologist and clinical director of The Institute for Sexual Health… Read more