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Your Body Remembers: The Subtle Ways Trauma Lives in the Nervous System
Trauma Therapy Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 10/16/25 Trauma Therapy Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 10/16/25

Your Body Remembers: The Subtle Ways Trauma Lives in the Nervous System

Have you heard the phrase “the body keeps the score”? Even if you don’t recall every detail, trauma can live in your body and nervous system. Here’s how it shows up - and how healing begins.

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What Is EMDR Therapy - And How Does It Actually Work?
Trauma Therapy, EMDR, Nervous System Healing Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 7/17/25 Trauma Therapy, EMDR, Nervous System Healing Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 7/17/25

What Is EMDR Therapy - And How Does It Actually Work?

EMDR therapy 101! What it is, how it works, and if it can be done virtually. I also cover how it rewires trauma, reduces anxiety, and can shift long-held patterns.

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Healing After Gaslighting & Chronic Invalidation: Rebuilding Self-Trust When Your Reality Was Dismissed or Minimized
Trauma Healing & Relational Wounds Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 6/6/25 Trauma Healing & Relational Wounds Alyssa Kushner, LCSW 6/6/25

Healing After Gaslighting & Chronic Invalidation: Rebuilding Self-Trust When Your Reality Was Dismissed or Minimized

If you’ve ever been told you’re “too sensitive” or found yourself doubting your own emotions and memories, you may be healing from gaslighting or chronic invalidation. Here’s how to rebuild self-trust and reconnect with what’s real.

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Recovery from people-pleasing isn’t a a quick and easy glow-up.⁣
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It’s a dismantling your old beliefs and patterns and then, slowly, a rebuilding - on your own terms.⁣
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If you’re in the messy middle and feeling lots of discomfort&
If you grew up in an environment where love felt conditional - where you had to perform, achieve, or take care of others to feel wanted - your nervous system learned a very specific lesson:⁣
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Your value is in what you do. Not who you are.⁣
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So you
I don’t know what I need” is one of the most common things I hear from my clients. ⁣
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It’s not that you don’t actually have needs btw. It’s that you’ve spent so long making sure everyone else’s needs were me
You’ve said “I’m fine” so many times it stopped feeling like a lie and started feeling like the truth.⁣
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But here’s what I know as a therapist: “fine” is often the word we use when we don’t feel safe e

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