Matt explores why familiar holiday movies feel so comforting during emotionally heavy seasons, highlighting how predictability, shared rituals, and vicarious resilience help regulate stress and foster connection. Drawing on family traditions and therapeutic insight, he shows how comfort films can become intentional tools for reflection, meaning-making, and emotional resilience rather than simple escape.  Read More…

Tags: movies, vicarious resilience, family, traditions, nostalgia, resilience, mental health care

In this post, Matt explores how trauma is understood differently in EMS and counseling, why the term has become overextended, and what trauma-informed care actually looks like in practice. By balancing body-based insight with meaning and agency, trauma counseling can remain precise, humane, and effective.  Read More…

Tags: trauma, trauma-informed care, counseling, the body keeps the score, first responder wellness