Episode 18: How Trauma Affects the Brain

Carrie and Meghan discuss how trauma affects the brain and the types of therapy that can help you work through PTSD. They talk about how EMDR can help you process a feeling/emotion that might have you stuck. Trauma creates neural pathways in the brain but healing can create new neural-pathways. 

Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LCSW is a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and grief and loss who works in private practice in Washington, DC. After experiencing PTSD after the deaths of both of her parents within two years of each other, Meghan started the platform “Grief is My Side Hustle” which includes her popular blog, links to her podcast under the same name, and her free writing workshop “grief mates.” Meghan’s memoir “The End of The Hour” publishes with Zibby Books in 2023.