How to Work with the Limbic System to Reverse the Physiological Imprint of Trauma
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with Bessel van der Kolk, MD;
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with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Pat Ogden, PhD; Ruth Lanius, MD; PhD Dan Siegel, MD; and Ruth Buczynski, PhD
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This response isn’t about how I will use these sessions to help with clients, although I have recommended the entire series to four other people, three who are dealing with the long-term effects of trauma and one who wants to be better aware of how to response to refugees she is working with. I am using this opportunity to thank you for making this series available to everyone. Those of us who have struggled, often for many years, to recover from our difficult pasts usually have to try on and/or piece together informations and therapies in an effort to find the freedom of authentic, lasting healing. This series, for me, brought together many of those pieces and validated much of my own recovery process while giving insight into how to successfully “finish up.” As encouragingly pointed out, trauma and its effects is not a life sentence. Also, I much appreciate the quality and accessibility of the presentation. Thank you, again.
Great “course”, these five broadcasts. Congratulations! Regarding this last one on the unlearning of trauma memories, and take this as a suggestion for next editions, consider to add memory reconsolidation and Bruce Ecker Coherence Therapy along with the Lymbic System Therapies Van der Kolk has talked about.
I found this episode extremely interesting.
I am a primary school educator but am concurrently studying to be on a developmental and educational psychologist.
The ideas surrounding movement vocabulary and physical treatments to heal trauma through the limbos system and CNS open up a huge range of possibilities and ideas of how these techniques could support young children who are often out of touch with their sensory systems or helpless from their experiences.
Thank you. I look forward to hearing more.
I hope to use this information in my work with incarcerated women. Most of them are trauma survivors, having endured early adverse childhood experiences. This has been a great series; but since I am not formally trained in psychotherapy, I doubt I can integrate much other than an increased respect for the extensive impacts of trauma. Thank you for making it available.
Many thanks for this series of lectures. What has also helped my work is Stephen Gallegos (PhD) Deep Imagery or Personal Totem Pole Process which is my starting point for working with trauma victims. This & Trauma Release Exercises.
Your lectures have been excellent however in broadening my understanding of the internal processes the brain undergoes when hit by trauma. Many thanks again! Jessica Clements
This was extremely helpful!! I can’t believe how timely it is for me and for a friend suffering.
I’m going to use this work to create a program of recovery that is trauma informed. I will also use it in my books, such as my upcoming book, The Yoga of Being a Badass and in the 10th anniversary edition of The 12-Step Buddhist. So many addicts have been traumatized and AA alone has never been enough. So this is good work and thank you for it!
In one way the habit of masterbating after the childhood sexual abuse is causing the adult person now a gateway to self soothe their self and distance them self from interpreting the situation as danger. This sense of connecting with the perpetrator is distancing the person from coming in terms of their PTSD. Would you agree? Is this commen? What change of mind patterns can aid this person in shifting them selfs from a passive to assertive stance when masterbation is used?
Thanks so much for this series. I didn’t catch all of it, but what I did see has given me a lot to think about, especially in relation to how trauma resides in the body and the body’s responses. I have already started to explore this with self-compassion meditation and found it really effective. I am a client rather than a therapist. Although the series seemed to be aimed at practitioners, I couldn’t see why. It seems equally useful and digestible for clients, and perhaps it would be useful to hear from clients about what has helped them.
A wonderful series, so helpful for working with traumatised people on the integration of the lower and upper parts of the brain to assist in reorganisation and change in basic defence systems. I aim to focus more on body movement in my assessments and therapy.
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Many years ago I worked as a sexual violence counsellor. My M.A. Distinction degree must have bee one of the earliest in trauma and recovery! Since then I have returned to my long-term career as a journalist and author writing on challenging social issues. I maintain a website that has a blog (somewhat neglected of late) on practical tips for healing after trauma (you’ll find it under my name). I have invented all sorts of ideas over time, many of which I never really understood why they worked. Your course has been immensely useful in understanding the science behind the why and the how. Not only for the blog but in my personal journey. At 75 I feel it’s only relatively recently that my body has opened up and I can truly connect intimately with other people – I don’t feel empty like I used to, as if there’s never anyone at home. It really is amazing to feel real joy and spontaneity, to sing and dance (even with cauda equina syndrome and various surgeries resulting from abuse, trauma and neglect) unselfconsciously and to thoroughly love every aspect of my life. For anyone from UK/GB reading this, I will probably be in various places in the UK in January reading from the second edition of my book.
I cannot emphasize enough how grateful I am for your work, Ruth and your fantastic team, some of whom I’ve had the privilege of meeting at international conferences. The sessions have been beyond helpful. I will write and ask permission to use bits and pieces on the lists I often make on my blog and to credit NICABM. This series has given me a new lease on my contribution to the trauma and recovery field.
An informative session. Over the weeks I have learnt valuable skills on how best to support survivors of trauma. I like the blend of sensory psychotherapy, somatic narrative and mindfulness, yoga and other cutting-edge resources. Whilst a portion of my work deals with people who have experienced trauma at the cruel hands of apartheid and racism in South Africa, I am also reaching out to communities in the Cape Flats that have are going through turbulent times due to gang-related violence/drugs/crime. The trauma in these communities have become almost endemic. Working one on one with those affected is helpful, but resourcing those who are in constant contact within the communities, will create a bigger impact. I’m going to share some basic information from the series to families and community workers, so that this vital information can offer some support to those who so desperately need this, but do not have the means or resources to access this on their own. Thank you kindly to the team at NICABM. May your efforts be blessed always.
I am not a therapist, but I am a nurse who suffered childhood trauma and in sharing my story and my transformation through therapy I am hoping to include a “get some help” section. I want to explain the psychological, neurological and physical changes for others to better understand what they are going through to better know how and where to get help. I’ve already published my own therapy poems with side notes of encouragement and some resources. I can’t afford your program now but I will look up some of the works that your speakers might have in my library. Thank you for helping me better understand myself, it adds to the EMDR therapy I recently had.
So helpful. Thank you! I work at a high school and have several clients/students with trauma histories. One was recently the victim of sexual assault and also has a history of sexual abuse as a child. I see a difference in her response to this recent trauma because she took action. The older trauma happened when she was 9. She is now 17. Although she froze initially in the recent assault, immediately afterward she went back to confront her aggressor and seemed to feel empowered for a day or two. What’s been challenging is that she has regressed again. But after watching the video I feel like I have some clues about how we might move forward, and that include reinforcing physiologically her “act of triumph”.
This is the second video I’ve watched and both have been really helpful. I haven’t been able to afford the Gold Subscription, so thank you for making the videos available for free!
Just a suggestion Carrie – 2 cery useful tool I use are EFT ( simply known as Tapping) which is so very effective in releasing threat from the amygdala. There are scientific reports to support EFT. 2nd tool I use in CBT is Imaginal Experience where the client gets to ‘rehearse’ the scenarios (eg confronting the perpetrator) in their mind, before even actively confronting them. I found this approach safer, with longer- lasting results. Blessings on the good work that you do at schools.
I especially appreciated the encouragement from Dr. Ogden to tune in very intentionally to the client’s body cues and consider what the body might be saying. I’m thinking about one client in particular who’s body posture is always stiff. When I first started working with her, even her vocal chords were stiff! She is slowly melting, and asking her to go into her body and describe what’s there, (as Bessel Van Der Kolk encouraged,) has been very helpful. I think I have enough trust built now to work more somatically, which should be more effective as we know she has early childhood trauma on top of adult trauma but she doesn’t actually remember any of the early trauma consciously. “Somatic Narrative.” Yes! That makes a lot of sense.
I never really thought about how the way one greets can be an indication of how secure or insecure their attachment might be. That’s fascinating. I will be tuning in more to that as well.
“Life is lived out in the theater of the body.” (Bessel Van Der Kolk). I feel a meme coming on! LOL
A lot of aspects of this program fits in with my research entitled: “Lives unseen: unacknowledged trauma of non-disordered, competent Adult Children Of Parents with a Severe Mental Illness”. In response to one comment by George, I wrote an article (find it in medium.com) entitled: “Little Red Riding Hood”, or “The False Grandmother”: The Hidden Role of Maternal Figures in Incestuous Child Sexual Abuse Scenarios” which may shed a bit of light on this hidden issue. However, we do need to know that the majority of assaults or sexual abuse are perpetrated by males, it’s important to become aware of the role of women either directly or indirectly. If interested in my research, my short articles and resource website, they’re free to download just Google: Suzette Misrachi
Fascinating and thought-provoking article Suzette – thank you for the reference. It’s an excellent treatment of a very difficult topic.
I have a minor quibble with its emphasis on male sexual perpetrators (female perpetrators are much more common, and the numbers much higher, than is ever reported), but very much appreciate your specificity in your consistent use of the term “male-perpetrated”, which leaves one with the understanding that there is a ‘female-perpetrated’ corollary.
I’ve been researching this for some time, and this is the first time I’ve read any article with a specific reference to grandmothers. And yet when I think about the cases I’ve known in real life grandmothers do loom much larger than I’d been conscious of. I’m now going to have to go back and reexamine them with this new perspective.
If you’re intending to write any further about this, two items come to mind you may find relevant. The first is the Jeffrey Baldwin case – a case of child torture in Canada where two of the children were tortured primarily by their grandmother, and Jeffrey died as a result. The grandmother had previously abused one of her own children who died in infancy, although no charges were ever laid. The abuse of the first child was very similar to the abuse of Jeffrey and his sister. She had also been a foster mother and had been investigated for suspected sexual abuse of her wards. Again, no charges were laid. She was able to continue abusing with impunity by using the ‘kindly grandmother’ – exactly as you’ve documented in your article.
The second is a reference to a sexually abusive grandmotherly type who would offer to babysit for unsuspecting young mothers in this article: http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/16/local/me-sexpred16
In light of today’s broadcast, I believe these cases require a very finely tuned observation of survivors’ body signals, as they generally have kept this suppressed – often not by choice – for so long.
You’ve given me a lot of food for thought. Well done, and thank you.
For anyone reading this, the link to Suzette’s article is here:
‘Little Red Riding Hood’, or ‘The False Grandmother’ by Suzette Misrachi https://link.medium.com/mztLyYv9ER
It’s well worth the read.
Thank you all for the clear and thoughtful work and presentation. I will be more present in the room with my client. I will be looking at the client’s presentation more closely and looking at how they have become stuck in specific movements. I will try to help them free themselves as well as integrating both parts of the brain by getting them to report to me mindfully what’s going on in their body when they are recalling a specific event or doing a movement.
It’s been extremely useful and interesting. I have been left enthused Andy has affirmed my wish to work with both the body and the mind and not to just privilege the mind.
Thank you once again for a great session. I’m thrilled to be learning all of this information. I plan to use this in an experimental Facebook group with Multiple Sclerosis patients like myself and people who may be suffering other health impairments. I’ve seen personal improvement in my own physical symptoms with movement therapy and integrative work, and I’d like to share with others who have brain-based physical symptoms and more than likely adverse childhood experiences.
Personally I can go from not being able to lift my leg more than a couple of inches to high kicking like a cheerleader when I do right/left integration work, particularly with they rhythm of music or even singing and dance moves. I’m playing around with this as I recover from a recent relapse/medication reaction and would like to see if others experience similar results. I’m curious if there are any studies with autoimmune illnesses and brain integration work. I know the ACES study confirms the connection between trauma and later illnesses in life, but has anyone ventured out to try to use brain integration to reverse the effects of early trauma once a person has health problems?
I will also use this information as a Parent Trainer to help adoptive and foster parents, once I get the MS back into remission which I believe will happen.
I appreciate all of you and hope you have a great Thanksgiving. I am thankful for this gift and have shared it many times hoping to pass it on to a hurting community.
Blessings,
Deb
First of all, I will need to listen to this again later this evening as I wasn’t able to get the video to work until 20 minutes in to the talk. What I did hear was invaluable information that made me think of different clients and their tx. needs. I have one who has done a great deal of cognitive work and is still stuck. At her last visit, I used some of the ideas about how to help client’s PROCESS a trauma rather than just re-experience it. As my client was remembering a trauma from a medical procedure at age two, I asked her to describe her feelings, scan her body and report her awarenesses, and share what her senses were taking in. Then, I did a grounding exercise with her. After this module, I think I will talk to another client who was sexually abused as a child for many yrs. about yoga. I also think she would benefit from movement/verbalization exercises. I agree that we all need training in paying attention to posture/facial expression/movement in clients as well as vocal patterns, perceptual patterns and so on. I need to learn more. I would love a bibliography for each module in order to read more about these different ideas. I am trying some of these ideas with clients, but think I need a better foundation in order to do this well enough to help people. I know some of it involves figuring out what each client needs and processing cases in supervision.
I absolutely loved the session. It is so helpful to think of the physical self and is giving me the courage to use this in session. I love yoga but haven’t had the guts to use aspects in sessions. It all makes such good sense. Thank you
Have a go with Yoga Rachael. I use it with noth kids and adult’s and it works wonders. So much is released and you will notice how the body actually unwinds. Perhaps try a few basic postures yourself first (if you haven’t yet) and you will understand the simple power of co-ordinated breathing and gentle movement.
Thank you for this worthwhile series which I viewed on its previous release. It’s inspiring to watch again. The core message for me is the value of staying with the body, what it is telling us, trying to help our clients to tolerate what’s there and then to adjust it and explore new physical possibilities.
I work with a lot of people who have experienced trauma, mostly not just one-off events either. I particularly like the suggestion to help people complete the defensive action if they froze during a traumatic event. I’ve seen too many people stuck in “recital of misery”… methods to help them get unstuck is very helpful. I will certainly use this in future. Thank you.
Thank you for this series! For me it is most important when working as a trauma therapist and also in my private life: To join into my own body! To be aware what is going on, if I am at peace or if there is some alarm. I have a long traum story myself and I know what it feels like not living in my body and constantly fighting triggers and flashbacks. And I know when I am not in contact with myself – I can`t meet and treat my clients. But if I am able to be in my body and sense what is going on and regulate myself I can offer being a save haven for my clients and “teach” them how to regulate their inner stress – it works the same way like a mom regulates her baby. I love Somatic Experiencing by Peter Levine which taught me this! It brough me back to life and into my body and makes me a good therapist.
Thanks Ruth!
That was a fantastic series of videos. Thanks so much for airing them for free. It has inspired me, touched me, educated me and encouraged me to continue to pursue my own healing (I am a lay person healing himself of severe autoimmune illness and associated trauma). These days I’m becoming more inspired to help other guys heal. I already share what I can with other survivors. Perhaps some day, I’ll volunteer at our local counseling centre and maybe even train so that I can work in the field. Maybe then, I’ll purchase your Gold Subscription. I have to get strong enough to be able to work (or even volunteer) first. Thanks again for sharing your program with me.
`Thank you for making this available for free. As a single parent/therapist there is no way I could have afforded the gold subscription, so I’ve taken copious notes! I look forward to learning more in your next series.
Sidebar — I just wanted to encourage you: I was that single parent/therapist for many years. Sometimes it felt like I would never be able to come to a place where I could afford trainings and market my practice and actually do the work the way I wanted to in the space I wanted to. Keep going, Katrina! It WILL come to you. Stay encouraged and keep giving your gifts. I am a living testament to the idea that your efforts will pay off!
Thanks so much- yoga based interventions definitely on my radar, not sure about martial arts as worry this might increase aggression.
Thank you so much for making this available for free. A really thorough exploration of trauma work with great emphasis on integration, mindbody links and the importance of both top-down and bottom up approaches. Useful theory and great practical suggestions.
As a trainee I will first reflect on my own bodily reactions and ensure my body is not holding onto trauma. I will observe my clients bodily reactions. Really good course. Many thanks
This series has been amazing. I have already begun using some of the information with my clients, and it has worked very quickly! I have a 10 yo client who was raped by a family member who refuses to discuss it. Because of the info in this series, I have been able to get her to work on her reactions to danger, without going into detail. I am looking forward to working further with her and incorporating this information into our sessions. In particular, information relating to the body sensations and being stuck in how she responds to threats now will be helpful. Thank you for putting this together, and especially for making it affordable!!
I work in an integrated healthcare setting and the majority of the patients I see have chronic pain and a history of trauma. I plan to focus on integrating limbic system therapies in my work with them. The PCMH I am contracted with is in a rural community and there is a lack of resources available to the population we are serving. I am hopeful my professional growth in this area will help our patients heal.
This is so informative.
Life changing knowledge
thank you! Is a subscription available for educational purposes? I teach in a creative arts program that finds value in alternative ways to tell “stories” ( including the body).
Thank you so much for all this information. It has really been good and insightful. It’s amazing what we are learning to help Trauma victims. Or even helping us see that someone may have suffered trauma even if they do not talk about it.
I am wondering if there is any way to purchase just the 2nd session? It is most useful in my work with young families.
I am currently in school to get my Masters and have been involved with Trauma Informed care under Frank Grijalva and Dr. Robert Macy for over 6 years. The information presented today is priceless and I meet today with some of our preschool teachers to see who would like to pilot a childs yoga program in their room. I love the information on the Limbic system as well and will be reading into this more.
Thank you to everyone involved
Accessible CPD with the experts invaluable information
I was surprised how much I already do but have also learnt a lot
Thank you for making this available to so many.
Definitely being more mindful about watching the body and working with the limbic system rather than only focusing on talking therapy will be my take away today.
Thanks for sharing all this -it has been re-affirming & I,ve learnt new stuff as well -this will be very helpful in my work with grief trauma- especially using the infographics (some of clients have really connected with these 🙂
I have to work with some trauma in a relative short time, so some of these new insights will be very useful in my work- thank you Ruth & all those that contributed to this important topic on trauma ?
Kind regards
Caroline
I just now found the section in your link where the CE/CME requirements are spelled out! Please ignore my question about the cost. I completely understand now! I apologize for asking. Let’s leave it that this is a beautiful piece of education and training that you have put together!
Another exceptional series.
I see two major omissions that concern me, and I hope you’ll correct this for the next series.
1) With the sole exception of the wonderful Ruth Lanius, all the examples of trauma used to illustrate the concepts – especially Bessel van der Kolk – are male perpetrators. This despite the series focus on early childhood abuse, where the majority of perpetrators, and the majority of those responsible for child deaths, are female. For instance, female sexual abusers – on average – perpetrate against children who are, on average, three years younger than the child victims of male sex abusers. The perpetrators of Munchausen’s by Proxy (FII) are predominantly female, and the perpetrators in Child torture cases always include females. (http://alaska.nationalchildrensalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Knox-Torture-as-a-Form-of-Child-Abuse-article.pdf)
This, contrary to your message, conveys to those victims and the professionals that treat them, that it STILL isn’t safe to talk about their experiences, and reinforces the impression that, even now, there is nowhere safe to talk about what happened to them.
2) I’m happy that you discussed how child abuse victims can develop perceptual patterns where they don’t see danger and become prone to revictimization. That’s a critical point that’s important for clients to understand to actually keep themselves safe in the present, and too seldom mentioned. However, what I haven’t seen touched upon so far is how in the most severe child abuse cases the abuse can often continue throughout the child’s adult life, meaning that some clients (extending even to the grandchildren) may not actually be safe either physically or psychologically from the abusive parent, even in adulthood.
I’m very happy to see that you are mentioning male victims more often in this series, and not just in the context of military trauma. That is a big and important step forward. I hope that the next step will be to open the examples to include victims of female violence, as well as victims of abuse against seniors, minorities, and the disabled.
Wow! Thanks George, this is great information. As a survivor of survivor of subtle covert sexual abuse at the hands of my mother and very early childhood (starting in utero) emotional abandonment and neglect, this dynamic and our culture’s blindness to it has affected me deeply. It has been extraordinarily difficult for me to get effective support. Thanks for bringing it out of the shadows.
Here’s a link to a talk I found that I think might interest you: http://www.shenathetherapist.com/2018/06/15/love-junkie-25-sexual-abuse-happens-woman/
That’s a great resource, Garth. Thank you for the link – I’m listening to it as I’m writing this. I’m sorry you’ve found it so difficult to get effective support.
You’re right that this is a topic that remains firmly in the shadows. Thank you for your courage to speak up despite the difficulty you’ve experienced getting help. Speaking up as you have is what will start to change this for the better, and I hope you’ll continue to do so. Raising awareness, for yourself and for the many others who haven’t yet found the strength, helps everyone.
Kudos to you, and I wish you well.
Thanks George, I’ve only recently become more open. I’ve been consciously dealing with this for 14 years and unconsciously for many more. It’s had a severe effect on all aspects of my life including physical health. I was intrigued by Bessel’s comment that talk therapy is most helpful when it provides a place to expose secrets. This is the first time I’ve mentioned my history on such a public forum (albeit my identity is still pretty safe) and it feels good. It’s very freeing.
Here’s another article I think you might like. It describes what can happen as a result of less than ideal attachment in early infancy. The violence of Jian disturbs me in that some people assume that a survivor of abuse is likely to become violent themselves. From what I know of the research this is not the case. I have heard that infant males are handled (cuddled) 7 times less than female infants. https://drgabormate.com/jian-ghomeshi-problem-narcissistic-male-rage/
Thanks for your kudos. 🙂 I’m touched.
Garth
I am a certified consulting hypnotist and 5-path (trauma) hypnotist. I work mainly with referrals from therapists to help clients who are “stuck” on some particular issue. I am learning so many valuable concepts from participating in this program that I will integrate into a hypnosis session. I originally came from an education background and I have to give your program an A+. I have never seen another educational program that comes even\close to the organization, presentation and content coverage of this webinar. Whenever time permits, I have been listening to each segment more than once. My one concern is wondering why it costs an additional $40 to get the 10 CE/CME credits or clock hours. What is it that you have to do that warrants that cost?
Thankyou for all the resources . Theres a wealth of experience talking here and i’ve found it very valuable. I work with people who have had or are having cancer treatment and a certain number of these are traumatised ,some from the past and some have medical trauma often when things haven’t gone as planned .. I often use mindfulness training and recommend apps but see now that may not be appropriate . I am an acupuncturist and wellness coach and some of acupuncture research done in the last 10 years has focused on the brain . Acupuncture is shown to work on the limbic/mid brain and I do see cases where sleep is restored very suddenly or over a period of many weeks .I now have a better understanding of how the treatment could be interacting with other parts of the brain .Also I do feel using the physical approach is very helpful and we have specialist yoga teachers to aid with the physical and emotional effects of breast cancer , Keep up your great work to inform people like myself as in
Britain high quality treatment for trauma is not widely available so we need to do what we can at the edges until more resources are directed to mental health.
I only managed to be able to see this last broadcast but have found it so fascinating. It has helped me get to know that trauma is not just a recalibration of the brain but the body communicates so much in relation to somatic experience. As an EMDR therapist I have so noticed bodily reactions during reprocessing but I will be so much more aware of noticing what the body is also unconsciously communicating. The bottom up Top down approaches are really helpful, also the importance of other mindful based therapies like yoga etc. All so helpful and inspiring.
I have loved this and so value the utmost professionalism and so wish I could afford the $197 but sadly not able to right now.
Deepest thank you to you all.
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Thank you so much for conceptualising exactly why CBT for Trauma, without attention to the Limbic System is flawed.
I particularly loved the distinction between a single trauma experienced by an adult with no previous traumas (I dispute the term ‘healthy’ though) and a child / adult who has experienced numerous or ongoing trauma.
I’m a British ClinPsy.D who qualified in 2003 so have been predominantly trained (to practice Therapy) in CBT. I would never knock CBT, it is effective, but for some clients, it is inappropriate unless used loosly within the realms of other approaches. I was lucky enough to work pre-doctorate with a Child Sexual Abuse treatment service in Suffolk. They gave me funding to see Bill O’Hanlon when he was visiting the UK. Best use of funding ever! Bill O’hanlon was and still does influence my work 28 years later!
Your series has also made me realise that my private practice in France with the english-speaking population is not what I want to do. I now feel invigorated to get back to working with people who’ve been sexually abused. I worked in a CAMHS sexual abuse team. (I have had several clients here).
So thank you! Not sure how to take this forward from France but much to think about!
Thanks to all of you for this session! I’ve had more success in working with clients who have experienced traumas by having them connect with what’s happening in their bodies and doing breath work. After today’s session I feel more confident in finding ways to work with clients with physical movements during sessions so they can live more mindfully and relaxed in the present.
We will use this knowledge to more effectively explain and implement the processes we have been using in our trauma release processes with our clients. We now better understand why they are working so well AND will now be able to better reach those who need an intellectual explanation to fully engage in the experiential processes that are outside of their comfort zones. This program is AMAZING! Thank you.
So much focus on the material aspect of existence. We have made progress in seeing how the mind affects the body and the chemicals of emotions affect the mind. When will the revolution occurr when we integrate spirituality, consciousness with the mind and body. This is the next frontier Their have been some pioneers like Dr. Dossey , Dr Herbert Benson , Ken Wilbur, Dr Eben Alexander and Dr. Bruce Lipton. There are many others . What will that therapy look like , I have been wondering
I feel more confident than ever now that I ave seen these sessions. I am better equipped to work with clients experiencing trauma. There is a lot to be said about the method that requires clients to re-live trauma. I am rethinking this idea and modifying my methods.
I will use the body informed narrative with adolescents who are unable to identify the body memories.
I am a psychotherapist (LCSW) who had two PTSD’s. I have done a ton of work undoing the traumas yet it still lives in my body. I would like to offer myself to y’alls research.
thank you very much for this possibility
I could see only the last video, but it was very interesting for me