As a survivor, I support a survivor mentality, acknowledging and
honoring negative life experiences and feelings yet consistently seeking solutions rather than existing in problems.
Over the years, I have expanded my therapeutic skills to include EMDR (a therapy specific to healing trauma and
other negative life experiences), hypnosis (for ease in promoting healthy habits), Reiki and IET (forms of energy work which enhance relaxation), and yoga (a mind - body practice).»
In other words,
negative life experiences do in fact accumulate over a lifetime and need to be addressed, since the cumulative effects of these experiences lead to overall negative health outcomes later on.
Guided by the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, it enables therapists to provide effective and efficient treatment to eliminate the clinical consequences of psychological trauma and
other negative life experiences.
Codependency can be a response to traumatic events and
negative life experiences.
With each trauma and
negative life experience we tend to become the wrong that is done to us.»
If you really want to disclose
the negative life experiences that you had then try to sound that you were done with it, had moved on to become a better person and you had learned a good lesson out from them.
Depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms and high rates of comorbidity are significantly related to interconnected and co-occurrent risk factors such as gender based roles, stressors and
negative life experiences and events.
Negative life experiences — infertility and perinatal loss, poverty, discrimination, violence, unemployment and isolation — also impact on women's mental health and wellbeing.
Petersen, T., Armour, C. and Elklit, A. (Submitted) Modelling patterns of
negative life experiences and mental health in Faroese adolescents.
It is about the capacity to bounce back from positive and
negative life experiences.
Many of these therapy approaches (especially Brainspotting) help clients desensitize and reprocess traumas,
negative life experiences and messages.
Higher rates of exposure to
negative life experiences and environments: There is a higher rate of pregnancy among teens who have gone through certain negative experiences, such as maltreatment or abuse, exposure to violence, parental substance abuse and deviance, and parental discord.
Youth Thrive ™ is a program that has identified five different protective factors which can help advance the healthy development and well - being of youth and reduce the impact of
negative life experiences.
To improve our understanding of the development of depressive symptoms, future research could test hypotheses in which factors from different levels interact, i.e., cognitions, genetics, environment, affect,
negative life experiences, as suggested by the cognitive vulnerability - transactional stress model (Hankin and Abramson 2001).
As a therapist trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), I help others alleviate distress associated by trauma and
negative life experiences.