The Resilience Mental Health Blog
Your Compass for Evidence-Based Healing
This is your blog about mental health, PTSD + Trauma healing, and building resilience.
Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: Helps Overturn Trauma Stuck Points
When a high-stakes project faces a setback, you audit the data and fix the system at its root. Trauma recovery requires that exact same structural audit. Discover how Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) provides an empirical, logic-based framework to dismantle the automatic 'stuck points' holding you backwith an idea.
Beyond "Just Talking": Why Prolonged Exposure Targets the Core of Trauma
Living with trauma often causes your world to shrink. While traditional talk therapy offers a supportive space to manage day-to-day stress, it rarely changes the underlying trauma memory. Discover why Prolonged Exposure (PE) is the gold standard for PTSD recovery, and how its structured, evidence-based protocol targets the true active ingredients of healing.
Why “Evidence-Based” Isn’t Just a Buzzword: A Guide to Evidence-Based PTSD Treatment
Master your PTSD recovery with this professional guide to gold-standard treatments. Compare PE and CPT against popular but unproven methods. Learn the data.
Psychology of Resilience: Dynamic Insights from Military Recruit Research
What makes some individuals bend while others break under extreme stress? Explore powerful resilience insights from military research and how they apply to everyday life.
When the World Feels Unsafe: Navigating PTSD and Community Stress in Minneapolis
Feeling hypervigilant due to recent community stress in Minneapolis? Dr. Melissa Polusny, Board-Certified Clinical Psychologist in Minneapolis, explains how community trauma impacts PTSD and shares grounding strategies to reclaim your safety.
What is PTSD? Understanding the Survival Response and How to Heal
When a threat passes, your mind’s danger alarm is supposed to turn off. With PTSD, that alarm stays stuck on high alert. Discover how post-traumatic stress is actually a biological survival response, why willpower alone can't fix it, and how evidence-based frameworks can help you safely retrain your nervous system.
Why Trauma Therapy Is Hard – And Why Its Worth It
The path to trauma recovery is rarely linear. It requires profound courage, patience, and self-compassion to confront painful memories and break long-standing survival patterns. Discover why committing to evidence-based trauma therapy is incredibly challenging—and why the clinical rewards are entirely worth the journey.
Do I need trauma therapy?
Wondering if it's time to seek support? Discover the subtle signs of unhealed trauma, how survival loops impact your daily life, and how evidence-based treatments like CPT and PE provide a clear pathway to long-term recovery. Serving MN and 40+ PSYPACT states.
