by blossomcounsel | Aug 19, 2025 | All Articles
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...
by blossomcounsel | Aug 19, 2025 | All Articles
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...
by blossomcounsel | Aug 19, 2025 | All Articles
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....
by blossomcounsel | Aug 19, 2025 | All Articles
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...
by blossomcounsel | Aug 19, 2025 | All Articles
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...
by blossomcounsel | Aug 19, 2025 | All Articles
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...
