“Bill,” a 64-year-old client I’d worked with several times but hadn’t seen in nine months, arrived for an emergency appointment. Without preamble, he jumped to his feet and yanked […]
Healing Trauma/PTSD: What Happened to You, (Not What’s Wrong With You)
“Time heals nothing” is one of the trade secrets therapists don’t want you to know. If you’ve been in “counseling” for trauma/PTSD for a reasonable period of time and you […]
Gangs and Bullying: A Virulent Societal Plague
Gangs and Bullying: A Virulent Societal Plague © SueHannibal.com Bullying, whether it’s primarily emotional, physical, racial, cultural, sexually motivated or all of the above, is spreading through the world. Terrorist […]
Can Chronic Stress Make You Sick?
This Woman Got Breast Cancer From a Bad Marriage. Here’s a story that illustrates the painful damage just one negative, limiting core belief can do to a person’s life. […]
Obituary For a Cruel and Abusive Mother, Written by Her Adult Daughter
A gut-wrenching obituary about an abusive mother The obituary below, written by the daugher of an abusive mother, has gone viral. The story is gut-wrenching and tragic, but sadly, in my experience treating childhood […]
Why Hoarding and OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) is so Hard to Heal
The Secret and Shameful World of Hoarding With the advent of the Hoarders and Hoarders: Buried Alive shows on A & E and TLC, the previously secret and shameful world […]
Food Sensitivities, Autoimmune Disease and Unhealed Trauma—Is There a Connection?
Studies have shown that chronic stress affects everything from your gums to your heart and can lower your immunity to everything from the common cold to cancer. In the 1930s […]
Can Stress From Unhealed Trauma Cause Autoimmune Diseases and Chronic Pain? Science Says YES.
Traditional psychotherapeutic approaches to trauma and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) which focus on cognitive “restructuring” and insights too often supply clients with coping skills for their pain instead of healing. […]
The ACE Study–link between autoimmune diseases, chronic stress and childhood trauma?
According to the landmark ACE Study, Adverse Childhood Experiences, (www.acestudy.org), the connection is unmistakable. In 1992, doctors at Kaiser Hospital in San Diego, CA and the federal Centers for Disease […]
The Many Faces of Panic
When a doctor takes your physical history and notes your symptoms, she’s comparing the symptoms you report against a list of symptoms of various conditions she suspects and looking […]