When Your Professional Role Collides with Personal Loss: How ART Helps You Grieve Without Falling Apart
Grief, Loss Laura Geftman Grief, Loss Laura Geftman

When Your Professional Role Collides with Personal Loss: How ART Helps You Grieve Without Falling Apart

When you work in a role that requires strength, presence, and emotional steadiness, grieving can feel like a threat to the very identity that allows you to help others. Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) offers a way to navigate grief without unraveling, retraumatizing yourself, or stepping away from the work you value. This post explores how ART supports professionals who must continue caring for others even while carrying their own losses.

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Why Am I So Sensitive Lately? When “Being Too Emotional” Is Actually a Trauma Response
Trauma Laura Geftman Trauma Laura Geftman

Why Am I So Sensitive Lately? When “Being Too Emotional” Is Actually a Trauma Response

If you feel like you’re crying more easily, reacting more intensely, or struggling to regulate your emotions, you’re not “too sensitive.” Emotional sensitivity is often a sign that the nervous system is overwhelmed by experiences you may not even recognize as trauma. ART helps calm emotional reactivity without requiring you to retell the stories that shaped it.

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