Caitlyn Budd, MA, LMFT #105799

Very good point. I hadn’t thought about this, and I hazard a guess that many others haven’t either. It’s a good reminder that if you’re feeling like you’re walking through tar or just can’t seem to focus even though you’re doing less than before, Allostatic Load is probably a contributing factor. Thanks for sharing Kathie Adams.

"We're all living under a pretty traumatic cloud right now." This is a global trauma, we're all, literally, in the exact same boat...different triggers and reactions but same result. Fear, helplessness, terror, confusion, grief, anger...all of it. A few ways to encourage your system to become more regulated in order to help keep your cortex (thinking/problem solving brain) online - mindful movement, predictability and structure in your schedule, breathing, yoga, and/or other mindful stretches/exercises that engage not only the ventral vagus (helps regulate, among many other things, your ability to engage with others and your heart rate) but also, an added benefit, expansion of lung capacity. Thanks Bessel van der Kolk for sharing your knowledge.

Well, if nothing else, this is happening as a result of the world-wide quarantine.

Incredible and so heart-warming.

What incredible resiliency we have when given the chance to shine.