Understanding Love Avoidance and How to Heal

Many people want love but struggle with the vulnerability that comes with it. For someone with love avoidance, closeness can feel both comforting and threatening… Read More

Sexual Anorexia: 4 Reasons Women Avoid Sex

Unlike sexual addicts who “act out” by regularly pursuing promiscuous or high-risk sexual behavior, women who struggle with sexual anorexia do the opposite. They… Read More

How Trauma Can Affect Women’s Intimacy and Relationships

Sabrina Stoorman, LPC-S, CSAT-S, is Clinical Director at Willow Healing Center and Director of Family Services for Meadows Behavioral Healthcare. Read More

The Trauma/Addiction Cycle

Addiction encourages trauma and trauma can encourage addiction. This process becomes a vicious circle or negative feedback loop, with trauma contributing to addiction, which… Read More

The Delicate Dynamics of Intimacy: How Early Relational Trauma Plays Out in Our Adult Relationships

Our capacity for empathy and closeness is formed and strengthened through the quality of our childhood relationships. From conception onwards, we resonate in tune or… Read More

30 Things to Know During PTSD Awareness Month

My therapist prescribed me to drink more alcohol. I had described symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), yet once again, the diagnosis was completely missed. Read More

How PTSD Treatment Cured my Back Pain and More on the Mind-Body Connection

I was diagnosed with osteoporosis in my early twenties. Why were my young bones already losing tissue? Women who struggle with anorexia nervosa, like me… Read More

What is Child Abuse and Why Does Child Abuse Still Matter in Adulthood?

The Meadows specializes in treating trauma.  Abuse is one form of trauma.  Often times, childhood trauma that occurred because of child abuse is overlooked as… Read More

Growing Up With an Addicted Parent

I remember as a twelve year old, sitting alone in our living room after one of our by then typical family meltdowns …….trying to make sense… Read More

Healing the Roots of Women’s Sexual and Relational Struggles

Girls are often born into this world surrounded by messages about who they are supposed to be, and who they should become; Be cute.  Smile.  Be a nice girl.  Just give them a hug.  Don’t make a fuss.  Suck in your belly.  Be the ideal body type.  Look sexy.  Stay pure and innocent.  Be good in bed.  You can have it all if you do it this way. Read More