Posts from January 8, 2026

Pain is always processed by the brain, not just felt at the site of injury. What the mind-body connection actually means for chronic pain, and why it’s not a dismissal of physical symptoms.

A flashback is your body believing the past is happening right now. Practical grounding techniques, why they work, and how to build a personal plan before you need it.

New from CNTR: August News & Opportunities NIH funds teletrauma… Read more: Read CNTR’s August 2026 News & Opportunities eNewsletter

Trauma bonds don’t make sense from the outside, only from inside the nervous system that built them. Understanding intermittent reinforcement, dependency, and why insight alone rarely breaks the bond.

Upon completion of her PhD dissertation, Dr. Rochelle Flayter, chair… Read more: STN and CNTR Team Up to Prioritize Geriatric Trauma Nursing Research Gaps

Six manuscripts describing the process and results of CNTR’s work… Read more: Papers on CDE Development for the NTRR Published in TSACO as the Repository Faces Closure

A newly funded project from the National Institutes of Health… Read more: Bringing Trauma Expertise to Rural Patients—When Every Minute Matters

Safety isn’t the warm-up to trauma recovery — it’s the work itself. Why felt safety in the nervous system, not just the absence of danger, is the foundation healing is built on.

PTSD and Complex PTSD are often confused, but they describe different experiences shaped by different kinds of trauma — and they call for different treatment approaches.

Why the body remembers what the mind has moved past, and what somatic memory means for real, lasting trauma recovery.