The Head Trash Blog

Trauma vs PTSD: What’s the Difference?

By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Trauma vs PTSD is one of those distinctions that gets blurred in everyday conversation. People say "I have trauma from that" when they...

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Trauma Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn

By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. The four trauma responses are fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. They're the nervous system's automatic survival strategies - the default...

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Unhealed Trauma at Work: Why You Hit Ceilings

By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. You don't think trauma belongs in a conversation about your job, your business, your professional life. The unhealed bits feel like they...

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Complex Trauma (CPTSD): The Wound Architecture

By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Complex trauma is what gets named when no single event explains the damage. Standard PTSD has a moment you can point to. Complex trauma...

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Mental fitness for founders

By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method. Method developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. The ceiling you keep hitting isn't about strategy. You've sensed this for a while, even if you haven't said it out loud yet. The...

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Mental Fitness vs Mindfulness: Strong vs Calm

By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Mental fitness vs mindfulness: another pair of phrases that get treated as the same thing when they aren't. The wellness industry has...

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How Trauma Lives in the Body (Not the Mind)

By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method - Developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Most of us were taught that trauma is a mind problem. Something happened, you remember it, the memory is the problem, talk about the...

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Mental fitness vs mental health

By Alexia Leachman, creator of the Head Trash Clearance Method. Method developed and refined since 2010 across 1,000+ clearance sessions. Mental fitness vs mental health: the two phrases get used as though they mean the same thing, and most of the time nobody pulls...

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