Blossom Counseling Services Blog

Anxiety doesn’t always look like panic attacks or hyperventilation. Sometimes, it looks like overthinking everything you said in a meeting. Or feeling a tight knot in your stomach for no clear reason.  Or lying awake at night, heart pounding over what might happen...

You’re going about your day—grocery shopping, working, scrolling your phone—and suddenly, it happens. Your heart races.Your stomach drops.Your chest tightens. Something seemingly small—a sound, a smell, a sentence—hits a nerve buried deep. That’s a trauma trigger. It...

Some pain doesn’t begin with us. It’s passed down—carried in our blood, our memories, our family patterns. It echoes in silence, in stories untold, in rituals forgotten. For many Indigenous communities, trauma didn’t begin in this generation. But neither did healing....

Let’s be honest—stress is everywhere. It weaves itself into work deadlines, financial pressure, family responsibilities, traffic jams, the news, and even our scrolling habits. Sometimes it creeps in quietly. Other times, it barges in like a storm. Either way, it can...

In Indigenous communities, we know that healing is not only personal—it is collective. The pain our ancestors carried doesn’t disappear with time; it lives in our bodies, our relationships, and our ways of being. This is what we call the generational trauma cycle—a...

When we think of healing from trauma, we often imagine talking through pain or analyzing past events. But sometimes, words aren’t enough. The body remembers what the mind forgets, and deep healing requires us to work with the nervous system—not just our thoughts. This...

Healing from trauma is rarely linear. It comes in waves—sometimes fierce, sometimes quiet—asking us to tend to wounds we didn’t create, stories we didn’t choose, and emotions we’ve long buried. For many, the healing journey involves revisiting past experiences in...

Anger is often misunderstood. In many cultures, including Indigenous communities, anger can be seen as dangerous, shameful, or something to suppress. But the truth is, anger is not the enemy. It is a signal—sometimes a loud one—that something within us needs care,...

In Indigenous communities, we carry more than memories in our bloodlines—we carry stories, wisdom, pain, and resilience. Generational trauma—sometimes called intergenerational trauma—is the emotional and psychological inheritance of the unresolved grief, abuse,...

You know that feeling—like you're carrying more than just your own stress? Like you're reacting to something bigger, something deeper, something you can’t quite name? Maybe certain patterns repeat in your family: emotional shut-downs, relationship struggles, health...