Psych Waves

The Fear of Being Seen

TGIF Psych Waves! Today Dr. A wraps up her 5 part Tiktok series (available on Youtube next week) with a full podcast discussing how trauma can manifest in a fear of being seen. Have you ever felt like you prevent yourself from having needs just to please others, but cannot for the life of you figure out why you do it? Trauma may be the answer. Listen to her episode for an explanation of this phenomena and other trauma insights.

Instead of ADDING new year's resolutions, how about we do a little subtracting?

This week on Psych Waves I'd like to present an alternative to adding New Year's Resolutions, creating problem solving checklists, and the "If i do this, then xyx will happen and I'll finally be ______" type of thinking. The solution? Do LESS and lower your cognitive load! How does lowering your mental load allow you to increase your ability to meet the goals you want without adding more work? Listen to find out!

IFS, Self Compassion, and Trauma Healing with Dr. Rachel Faust

Dr. Anderson sits down with Dr. Rachel Faust, owner of Love and Light Wellness to discuss Internal Family Systems Therapy, Self Compassion, and healing from trauma with a dash of Polyvagal Theory. Haven't heard of some of these terms before? This is the perfect time to learn about these new age theories and concepts!

PTSD: Prevention starts with Educating Our Future Men

On this episode of Psych Waves, we have a VERY important, and serious, topic. Oftentimes in our society today, we discuss abuse prevention in terms of how we can better protect women: more legal penalties, more policing, and more access to self defense instruction or tools. However, today I want to present another angle as to how we end cycles of abuse: How we educate our men. Educating our men while they are still young tackles the problem of male dominated patterns of abuse at the source and from the ground up, as opposed to reacting to it after it's already happened. We as MOTHERS, grandmothers, aunties, neighbors and friends have the power to teach our men how women should be treated as human beings, and how they would wish to be treated themselves.

Concussion: The Invisible Injury and What To Do About It!

On this episode of Psych Waves, Dr. Anderson discusses all things concussions: How we get them (and it may be easier than you think, which = no bueno!), what happens in the brain when we get them, and finally an innovative treatment that can help the brain heal from a concussion.