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.

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.

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.