Selah Trauma Counseling Center

06/08/2026

World Ocean Day.

What is it about the sound of the waves? The rhythmic timing of each tiny droplet moving in motion together as it reaches for the shoreline, pausing, yielding, then returning. When you’re studying attachment and developmental trauma, you learn humans do the same except somewhere in that sequence there is a disruption.

The ocean keeps flowing. Humans do as well, it just looks more like adaptations in personality, symptoms, and relational patterns. In a medical model, we might call it ptsd or cptsd. Resmaa Menakem says, “trauma decontextualized over time can look like family traits and in people over time like culture.” When you look at trauma therapy, those internal patterns come to light and then we move outwards relationally towards others and the world. Rhythms shape and support us, whether it’s the sunrise to sunset, birds, the land and plants, music, or the ocean.

Invitation: Inhale, pause, long exhale. What rhythms have been disrupted in your life? Are there areas you could practice pausing and learning to flow in? If you feel out of balance, you might try to listen to something rhythmic or spend some time in nature that’s soothing to you.

06/05/2026

RECORDATORIO PARA TU SALUD EMOCIONAL

06/03/2026

PTSD isn’t always loud.

It isn’t always flashbacks.
It isn’t always nightmares.
It isn’t always what people see in movies.

Sometimes it looks like:

Overthinking every situation.
Replaying conversations for hours after they end.
Scanning every room for exits.
Sitting with your back to the wall.
Jumping at unexpected sounds.
Feeling tense even when everything seems okay.

Sometimes it looks like avoiding certain places, people, or memories.

Sometimes it looks like always having a backup plan.
Always preparing for the worst.
Always waiting for something to go wrong.

And sometimes it just looks like exhaustion.
Because living in a constant state of alertness is exhausting.

That's why so many people struggle in silence.

Their wounds are invisible.
Their effort is invisible.
Their survival is invisible.

June is PTSD Awareness Month.

So if you're carrying scars from experiences you never should have had to survive, this is your reminder:

What happened to you matters.
What you're carrying is real.
And you deserve to be seen, understood, and supported.

06/01/2026

Pride Month is still important because somewhere, someone is still wondering if they are worthy of love, belonging, and safety. Someone is still hiding parts of themselves to avoid rejection. Someone is still questioning whether they will be accepted by their family, faith community, workplace, or friends. Someone is still carrying the message that who they are is "too much," "wrong," or "not enough."

Pride is a reminder. A reminder that every person deserves to be seen with dignity. A reminder that authenticity is not something that needs to be earned. A reminder that belonging should never be conditional.

As therapists, helpers, and humans, we know that healing can begin when a person experiences acceptance in a relationship. When someone no longer has to spend energy hiding, protecting, or explaining their existence, space opens for connection, growth, and healing. May we continue creating communities where people do not have to wonder if they are worthy. Because they already are.

Invitation: Inhale. Pause. Long exhale. You do not have to earn your humanity, your dignity, or your right to belong.

05/31/2026

Gen Z has found a new, aesthetically pleasing answer for incessant anxiety: ‘panic pouches’ filled with soothing items to stop stress in its tracks. Do they work?

05/29/2026

Today's notable quote from this year's Boston Trauma Conference. A reflection from Regulation without Erasure by Nkem Ndefo, a session focused on chronic illness, disability, and somatic work and a reminder there can be a restoration of dignity without cure. Just as easily translated into trauma work as well.

Invitation to reflect: "If you are always trying to get better, is there an acceptance of your situation or presence? If you sit in acceptance, have you stopped trying to get better? "(The challenge is to sit in the uncomfortableness of both situations).

05/29/2026

05/27/2026

What permission does your body need?

What permission does your mind need?

What permission could you give yourself to set down what’s heavy, even for a little bit?

Permission granted: to grieve, to cry, to share your burdens, to keep going, to find tiny little joys and big joys too, to eat, to savor, to live.

05/25/2026

This day invites us to pause long enough to honor their courage with presence. Let the quiet open like a field of remembrance. With every breath, names whispered in the wind from the heart. Rising with the sound of the bugle; 24 notes blend into one haunting melody.

In memory of many, in honor of all.