Dr Brandi Colding

Dr Brandi Colding Trauma resources and workbooks. Educational content for trauma, nervous system regulation, and attachment. Located in Franklin, Virginia

Check out my podcast on YouTube: Inside the Pattern, first episode to be released July 1st!

07/27/2026

Individuals with BPD or traits of borderline personality disorder, are more likely to have an intense and immersive fear of abandonment and will go to extreme lengths to not experience abandonments.

Additionally, individuals with BPD or traits of BPD, may have extreme valuation/devaluation of other people and they may jump from one side to the other depending on the situation and experience.

07/23/2026

When an individual experiences immerse amount of trauma over a long period of time, their nervous system becomes heightened and in a constant state of survival mode. One of the coping mechanisms is adjusting to the chaos and environment they are living in and then can manifest as borderline personality disorder. An individual can have TRAITS of BPD but not have a full diagnosis of BPD.

07/22/2026

We hear a lot of BPD, however, there is a lot of misinformation and making individuals with BPD out to be the villian. A huge percentage of individuals experienced childhood trauma that lead to personality changes and as a coping mechanism to SURVIVE. Individuals who have C-PTSD, can have SYMPTOMS of BPD but may not meet the full criteria for BPD, there is a difference.

07/20/2026

So many times, I hear people have consented, if they consented than that is a yes; however, while in custody agreements, relocation disputes, consent given does not mean it was true consent. When you are under pressure, threatened in any situation, our survival responses may jump in and have us consent which can be apart of the parasympathetic nervous system (dorsal vagal) response. This is a type of survival mechanism to keep us surviving in moments that our overwhelming to us.

07/13/2026

Everyday I’m procrastinating and creating my podcast. Not due to lack of knowledge but for actually being seen.

07/12/2026

Finally knocked something off of my bucket list I’d had for years. Skydiving!!!

“Sometimes fear doesn’t subside and you must do it afraid.”

07/10/2026

For therapy to be helpful, we must be completing honest. If we only give a portion of the story, we won’t receive the help that we deserve. Therapist can only help you as far as your honest and willing to receive help. If we don’t want to acknowledge our faults than therapy will just validate you and won’t help you grow.

07/09/2026

Just sometimes therapy is like that.

07/08/2026

This is just one example of student loan debt. The interest alone is nearly $22 a day. Over one month it would cost approximately $682 a month to just keep the balance from growing. This wasn’t taught during financial aid meetings or when taking loans out. The issue isn’t repayments. A lot of people just want affordability to pay these off. A lot of peoples professions required advanced careers that don’t pay enough to even cover their student loan amounts. But mental health professionals in particular, they have to take out over 100k to get their degrees and may not make enough to cover the student loans.

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