10 Natural Ways To Reduce Stress And Anxiety
Natural Ways To Reduce Stress Starting Today (Article first published in Adoption Today, April 2012 issue) We have learned about trauma. We have learned about attachment. We have learned about emotional regulation. We have made all the appointments, met all the...
5 Tips For Overcoming Emotional Trauma
Overcoming Emotional Trauma We have all experienced some trauma in our lives. The clients with whom we work at the Alvarado Group have often experienced complex trauma, early, developmental trauma or Secondary Trauma. Some of our first responder clients are in the...
Forgiveness
Nobody gets out of this lifetime without being hurt by another. Not one of us. When someone you care about hurts you, when a stranger hurts you, when anyone does anything that hurts you, you can hold on to anger, resentment and thoughts of revenge keeping you stuck in...
A Global Paradigm for Trauma Informed Care
What is Emotional Regulatory Healing, or ERH? Crisis Ignites Evolution. ERH is Bold Evolution. If you are interested, please read on. 2006: A foster child arrived to the Alvarado home; 15 year old, 30 placements, multiple residential stays and a chronically mentally...
A New Way to think about Success
Hold on, we kick off with some science and quickly get to the good stuff~ Affective neuroscience studies the way that emotions are regulated, or dysregulated, in the brain. Just as we must learn to read and write, and a bit about history, geography and math to be...
Healing for Couples
We have just come out of a 3 day healing retreat for couples. Beautiful, committed couples. As I observed the pain, the tears, the truth and the life long struggle pouring out of each of these divine souls, I was reminded that the desire to love our partner through...
Chose to chose
Everything is a choice; how you dress, act, eat, move, love, worship, live. Happiness and wellbeing are a choice, your choice. When something happens that makes you feel bad you have a choice to either let it ruin your day (or even life) or to take a deep breath and...