How to Work with the Limbic System to Reverse the Physiological Imprint of Trauma
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with Pat Ogden, PhD ;
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with Pat Ogden, PhD; Peter Levine, PhD; Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD; and Ruth Buczynski, PhD
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Thank you so much for all those wonderful works and shares! I only missed the evidence based IFS (Internal Family Systems) Model, which, for me, is at the forefront of this neuro integration (vertical and horizontal) in an experiential, collaborative, empowering and safe way. For me, this approach unites both top down and bottom up integration in its practice.
Thanks Ruth,
Due to family and work commitments I’m only getting to watch the first lecture today but found it very informative and usefull. Just checking where I can gain access to the transcripts of the lectures. Many thanks Gillian.
I had more of a question than a comment, but the series was excellent, and very helpful. Thank you. Ron wondered when/if therapists should take on a more social activist role regarding excessive patriarchy, reflecting that sometimes survivors gain from taking an active role in the political process. I heard a story on NPR recently that suggested treating sexual abuse as a public health issue – which is sort of middle ground between activism and privacy. We in the field do have a tendency to think of treatment for sexual abuse being done in the privacy of an office, which feels necessary for safety and to deal with the shame, and yet it also re-creates the feeling that it’s not ok to deal with this except “in secret” again. I’ve participated in the Women’s March and the Kavanaugh Hearings, which were incredibly powerful in feeling part of a movement, but it didn’t stick, in that the work must be personal and internally transformative, and not just political. Two: Ruth L and Pat both mentioned the value of finishing a protective or defensive motion, as an antidote to the helplessness and collapse. I find that many women, especially from a more traditional Christian upbringing, cannot, cognitively, bring themselves to “hurt someone”. They believe the other is more important; they are supposed to take care of them and help them feel better (even if he’s raping them). Is this addressed by doing the physical motions anyway, or by helping the women address their belief system that says they are irrelevant and must not hurt others? I have not been able to get women to take self-defense courses when their belief system is this strong. They seem to think/believe it is better to be killed than defend themselves. Three: During sex, I believe oxycontin is released which makes a strong bond and feeling of warmth and connection between the partners. Is this hormone released due to the physical stimulation of the genitals or by the feelings of love and emotional closeness? Is the hormone released during rape and assault just the same as during 2 consenting adults making love? Does the hormone have any impact on how trauma is recorded in the brain during rape vs lovemaking? Four: I think one thing that builds a patient/therapist safe/trusting relationship is when the therapist actively invites the patient to disagree, contradict, or argue with the therapist. Many times the patient was never allowed to disagree with their abuser, and to have a relationship where they are free to disagree and challenge the therapist creates a sense of boldness and more power, which ironically, enables them to be a more willing partner in the therapeutic process.
I just wanted to say that I really valued being given access to these free sessions. The main issues I find myself needing to deal with with clients is complex trauma where there has been very damaged attachment right from the start, rather than helping people get over major traumatic events in their adult lives, and the series has helped me grasp the separation that can happen between brain and body and why something like CBT can be a waste of time when this connection is non-existent or damaged.
Thank you.
Want to mention that MATRIX RE-IMPRINTING is a very effective technique that incorporates what is being talked about in these webcasts. I can highly recommend it for all trauma, including complex trauma and DID clients, as well as for anyone.
Also, (Aboriginal) Focusing Oriented Therapy is worth noting as it is body-centered, resourcing nature and holistic wisdom in healing mind/body/spirit – it very much follows the body narrative more than verbal narrative.
I plan to incorporate the excellent explanations in these webcasts in educating clients about what they are experiencing and how it can be healed: integrating lower/mid brain with higher brain (a narrative and de-marked timeline), developing the observer self (mindfulness), rewiring experience (and anti-doting traumatic experience stuck in a time and place in the body), and repairing identity (seeing their resilience/competence in the experience), etc.
Also, I find it has helped me to get more clear to address more aspects of what might be needed by a particular client and various ways to address it. Some additional ways to resource clients to keep them in the therapeutic window. And when rewiring experience in a stuck trauma place, I will be sure to check more for defensive movements that might need to be completed.
I found it has helped to see the different leading experts say similar things and summarize what is known into a cohesive collaborative framework, one that we have all, in essence, been finding parts of; it unifies, revealing how we have all been finding much the same answers though we may have approached (healing traumatic experience) from different angles. Thank-you very much!
Thank you ??
I am not a trained professional.
I am a severe trauma survivor with diagnosed PTSD, and so too is my husband.
This episode of your seminars is invaluable.
It’s helping me understand why my husband and I respond to each other in the ways we do… the shutdown turn-off mode, the disconnect – even though we genuinely and deeply love each other.
Now we are doing ‘talk therapy’ – I have been for some years and feel a bit stuck with it, and my husband has had one counselling session.
I really get the concept of burning new neural pathways combining movement and consciousness together to redirect the imprinted loops of thinking.
I am sad the free seminar series is finished, as they have helped me and us through a critical time together, allowing me to see good hope for us to have a fully present and attachment to each other for good reasons and to enjoy each other in a better emotional life. Help to stop roller coaster behaviour and self created drama in our life together.
Invaluable
Kind Regards,
MQ
Thanks heaps to the amazing presenters here and in other programs. I wish I could afford to pay for the entire series, so I am forever grateful to those who support you guys to continue the good work.
Thank you to George for giving such wonderful feedback to my article on female perpetrators of abuse. I’m glad that in Googling my name: Suzette Misrachi you were able to locate the articles I have been invited to write such articles to feed knowledge to the psychiatrists and mental health practitioners in Australia, but also my research into an unacknowledged trauma, which is about to hit 10,000 downloads in 63 countries. Again, by Googling my name you should get it instantly for free. It’s helped a lot of people as I keep getting “thank you’s” from around the world. One of the leading traumatologists (mentioned in this episode) Professor Onno van der Hart invited me to write an article about my research in the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation. If anybody would like to receive this article then email me at the following address: suzette.misrachi@gmail.com
Thanks again for this wonderful program. It is indeed challenging, but also extremely helpful. I also liked what was said at the end: “by healing trauma, we change the course of civilization”. Oh, so true!
Thank you.
Interesting with freeze response. Apart from martial arts, pilates can assist people who may not have experienced trauma but see themselves as incapable. The increased body awareness and mindful approach builds confidence, physical strength and mind body coordination.
Thank you for offering these wonderful classes. As a former student of Pat Ogden’s (Hakomi Therapy), I am grateful to have had this opportunity to refresh my memory and develop new techniques. In my work today, along with Rolfing Structural Integration and movement education, I tend to make up very specific mindfulness techniques for each client in every session- releasing, healing and integrating the effects of trauma. I noticed I was able to easily begin applying what I gathered from each class, I enjoyed using new wording refreshing my content and concepts, and my clients expressed enjoying knowing they are participating in the latest science for their own ‘cutting-edge’ trauma work. I want to express my eternal gratitude to Pat Ogden, PhD — Pat, I am forever grateful to you — to Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Dan Siegel, MD, to the others (whose names aren’t listed above), and especially, to you, Ruth Buczynski, PhD for sending me all the two days of reminder emails with generous videos, and texts, making sure I did not miss a class – Thank You! Shirley Smith, Movement Improvement, Rolfing Structural Integration
So much I’d like to say in response to this webinar. I found it literally THRILLING. It is an intense and energizing feeling, having this new knowledge that will empower my clients towards healing, growth, and change. I have already begun adding some educational components to my work based on this, and am excited to add more somatic and physical portions to my otherwise emotionally focused, CBT- and EMDR-driven work. This will help me educate clients and public about why a person can’t “just get over it” and needs to do concrete “work.” It revitalized some specific interests and goals I have within my practice. It resounded my holistic background and theories. And, as stated, it has broadened my toolbox to share with my clients, that they may get unstuck and move forward. I AM thrilled. So, thank you.
Thanks for this series, it’s given me new insights, and validtion on the work I do with traumatised clients within mental health services.
Coincidentally my focus is on getting people moving, in the Gym, out running or just going for walk, whilst using mindfulness approaches informed by Russ Harris’ interpretations of ACT.
Incidentally, re Ruth’s comment on Mindfulness and Yoga, I was in keral in India last year, and my yoga instrutor told us that the original purpose of yoga, was to prepare and enable the body to sit still during meditation. It seems the human race is going full circle with this stuff.
Throughout this series several times i felt that prenatal trauma, resulting in complex post traumatic stress disorder is not included. No face becomes visible, trauma is felt, but preverbal, no asphalt, smells or whatever. Just Frozen in Time in a state my body is literally dying, but again this past week not fully. Again no total shut down of organs, Peter Levine predicted as endresult in one of his books. My face shows yellow and literally torn, my eyes as if representing different parts of myself staring back at me in the mirror as a stranger, unlike my usual self which mostly uses Dissociation as a way to cope, to survive the unbearable of a mother killing her child and a father cursing her and later attempting to kill her. I need to mindfully integrate this state. But i feel so triggered my brain fails to make the translation from what is being said to appy it to my personal trauma disorder. The other thing is the inability to feel attachments with the people in my life that matter. My daughter, my grandson who had his first birthday today. Maybe some traumaexperts got it right and changed brainwiring is permanent, never to be healed as in Rumanian Orphan children, according to Bruce Perry. But how to go on when that makes daily reality, familylife unbearable for me, dissociating to give my children and grandchildren the illusion that i am/feel attached to them.I believe it was Terry Larimore who called this kind of traumas not PTSD/CPTSD but emotional shock. Comparing it with being run down by a truck, buried deep in the sand, getting up again, only to be instantly run down again by the next truck. And when my age, 68, one gets tired or rather exhausted.
This work has opened new ideas for helping survivors heal from trauma. Especially second generation cult survivors. Thank you for sharing this work.
I was only able to listen to today’s session. This is amazing. I need to do some more reading, however, I am thinking of some clients who have a stuck trauma response, that I could try this approach with once I get a more concrete understanding.
I would love to purchase this, however, I am not able to at this time.
Thank you so much for making this available because I don’t currently have access to therapy. I’ve had CPTSD all my life from so much childhood trauma, including incest, and this had been enormously helpful. Can now see how much being very active with physical challenges such as rock climbing throughout my life helped me rewire some of what happened before anyone made that connection. Will be more intentional about it going forward.
Hi. I’m Jeanette Hargreaves, life coach. I help moms who lose their temper. I think one of the most important pieces we can take from today’s training is that a multi-modal approach is necessary to help people who are stuck in the fight/flight/freeze/trauma/stress response. As professionals, let’s not be elitist about our own approach but instead build networks to refer clients to each other (that’s what I am doing). I think that people will be healed by working with a variety of professionals with a variety of strategies that can help that unique person. Here are some examples: counselors (and EMDR/EFT), physical therapists, massage therapists (cranial sacral therapy), biofeedback (neurofeedback), and if they are open to eastern practices, yoga/meditation/martial arts. Also, if you’re interested in reading some research about talk therapy/story therapy, Redirect by Timothy Wilson is a good read. Now, let’s all get to work and get to healing! <3
The pervasiveness of stress and trauma in our society needs our attention. Therefore the possibility to learn essential concepts and how to apply effective methods would benefit everyone as well as our society.
This series of NICABM programmes have given a substantial and very useful input of knowledge of how to work wtih traumatized clients. We are happy to say that our experience has confirmed the value of working with an emphasis on somatic experiences, bodily awareness or being mindful of your experiences if you like.
Combining knowledge from many resources with our long and fruitful experience of working with trauma, we have developed a concept with a toolbox of somatically based techniques that are well suited for anyone to work with trauma and stress induced physical or mental ailments.
The ease with which almost everybody learns to apply this combination of methods makes it possible for people with all kinds of backgrounds to learn.
Our concept, which we call Mindful Tapping®, has been well received because it is easy to understand and easy to apply practically. You can find it at mindfultapping.se under the heading koncept (The text is in Swedish)
During many years of refinement and concept development we have developed a training programme that I encourage you to take part of. You can find it at mindfultapping.se under the heading utbildning (The text is in Swedish)
Your generosity is very much appreciated. I am not at the moment able to commit to the gold membership but your tidbit hit the spot. I have lots to think about.
In the 80s I had several training workshops with David Groves. I thought of his work as trauma was discussed. I looked him up again and saw that he had died at age 57 or 59. I wonder what you all think of his work. I think he was ahead of his time.
Thank you for this series – packed with information and clearly explained. It’s given me more confidence in sticking with the vital importance of bottom up therapy for clients wiith complex trauma histories because it is not emphasised in therapy school as standard learning here. In hearing ‘what works’ from different experts, it also underlined that different approaches are not mutually exclusive and can be used as part of an individualised approach provided the therapist is carefully tracking and aware which areas of the brain they are working with. It made me more aware that from a UK perspective that we are still too reliant on talking therapies and highly cognitive approaches for trauma treatment. I was also delighted to see Qi Gong which I practice and Yoga validated as powerful in somatic repair. The background information gives me a scientific basis for recommending things to help clients outside the therapy space above and beyond ‘gentle exercise’ benefits. Thank you for sharing
Thank you for your impressive lectures! I will definitely use the ideas in my work as a helping professional. I work in the frames of attachment-based developmental approach by Dr. Gordon Neufeld, Vancouver, Ca. His approach and yours are very close in spirit, both with great respect to human development and dignity. Thank you for making this world a safer place!
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Thank you for this course, thank you for making it available to so many . In England it’s hard to find training that’s available for everyone .
I understand the integrated approach to this and the theory and research is fascinating . I feel lucky to have had access to this. For me it’s about developing the confidence to try the somatic aspect of all this . I am wary about invading a a clients space too drastically.
I have a client who’s stuck in her negative narrative but she is learning to swim so I do see this as her developing new somatic vocabulary.
Could you recommend any CPD training on the somatic aspect of all this that’s not online and is in England?
Thank you.t .
Warm wishes
Sally.
My career has been primarily in nursing; I’m prepping up to return to providing therapy with an MSW background and will be focusing on trauma. This series has proven an interesting starting point for me. Working in medicine, a very evidenced-based, “linear” field that’s often suspicious of integrative techniques, it’s been very helpful for me to hear in-depth descriptions of the theorized physiological mechanisms of action of these techniques within the nervous system. It occurs to me, that if I were a counseling client that someone were getting ready to use limbic system techniques with, it would be helpful for me to have a video explaining the clinical rationale for their use. I would be “resistant” without such support. I tend to intellectualize, it took me a long time to be open to EMDR as a legitimate method until there were functional MRI results corroborating patients’ reports. Also, I’m curious (remember, I’m a returning “student” to this field); Dr. von der Kolt referenced that there is not really research bearing out that verbally repeating one’s experience is helpful. He also referenced a very neurologically based burden of proof, “changes in the periaqueductal gray.” I’ve seen reference to the VA’s work with PTSD and one of the primary evidenced-based methods they use and reference research literature on is “PE” – Prolonged Exposure, which from what I can tell, is just that… repeating the experience verbally and journaling about it. Perhaps the main difference would be these are veterans who experienced their trauma as adults. Would PE count as “just repeating the trauma” that may have enough research to support it and are there possibly other surrogate markers of a neurological recovery more accessible than changes in the periaqueductal gray… maybe something such as galvanic skin responses?
i’m glad to hear it said, cbt is not enough. i want to relocate to a place where i can get trauma therapy. cbt is not enough. cbt is all i can get here, and on medicare, if you get therapy, it is ONLY 6 sessions paid for. been goign thru cbt for years. not enough.
i also noted during this that, the change of movement did not help me either. after a childhood of abuse, i started studying tae kwon do as a young woman. the example is not right or inapplicable in domestic trauma. you cannot kick someone in the groin whenever you want to. its illegal. anyway, i was one of only a few women in the mid 70s where i was to earn a black belt. it did not help when i married an abuser, unbeknownst to me of course. i didn’t believe in hitting , so i didn’t hit back. even with all my skill in obtaining a black belt.perhaps i misunderstood the example. but i never learned to feel i could defend myself, even tho I have done it before. but you know how narc men will turn the blame on the woman. and back then, it would have held. now, not so much. so idk what i am supposed to do now, to feel like i would defend myself.
i will try to get my cbt therapist to shift a bit to treating hypoarousal, but she is not trained in trauma therapy.
I am a patient who has suffered multiple traumas over the past 12 years from a hysterectomy and the subsequent medical issues that occurred… thyroid issues, adrenal insufficiency, anxiety, mood disorders, a hernia created by the scar tissue which incarcerated my intestines and the repair with a plastic mesh that was too large for me and incarcerated 4 nerves and left me in chronic pain for 6 years, then finally having it removed and healing the trauma… the journey has cost over a million dollars.. i am not someone who does well with drugs, so I have managed the pain with laser therapy , acupuncture, some medication, therapy.. and I am continuing to heal. I have had a family that did not understand the process and so it has been difficult, but emdr and continued help will lead me back to wholeness. This series was wonderful and I hate for it to end as it allows me to see a bit more clearly just what has occurred. I am grateful for your work.. it will help many put their lives back into wholeness. Blessings and gratitude.
Each time I see these sessions or clips, I think this work should be part of
a psychiatrist’s training, all psychologists and mental health counselor’s training,
MD’s (especially neurologists), and teachers. Trauma is what makes people tick
the way they tick.
Excellent video. I work with military trauma survivors at a hospital and can attest the inadequacy of talk therapies to address the problems they face. I’ve worked out a protocol of Feldenkrais Movement, Tibetan singing bowls and NLP that has been very effective. Let’s hope this ‘Integrative Medicine’ approach can keep growing.
I am trained in Somatic Experiencing and Stephen Terrell’s Transforming the experience based brain—a modality that uses the body to heal developmental trauma. I am so grateful that you have created this series to help more therapists understand the critical role of the body in trauma treatments. I have been reminded of the importance of adding movement into my sessions and recommending even more for clients to start using yoga. Thank you!
Amazing insights. I cannot thank you enough. I will begin my yoga practice again, after a 10 year lapse. I now understand why I was unable to practice yoga and mindfulness. Although, in my line of work as a massage therapist, I am always able touse it and recommend it with my clients. I have stayed away from mindfulness in my own healing because it seems to be used too often by practitioners who are not trained enough. Now I know why I didn’t trust it.
I know that massage therapists and mindfulness practitioners are not privy to dot his kind of work. But let’s face it, it is inherent in the work of somatic. Please add Licensed Massage Therapists to your list of practitioners, even if you have the caveat that this is only for client support purposes and not therapeutic work. We are all in this together.
Wish I had been able to listen to more sessions! I will begin to look more at how the body reacts 2 trauma. Not only will I be able to use this information to help me with clients but in my own personal experience as well. I have personally gone through an incredible amount of trauma throughout my life and has been unable to get Beyond it. I am truly hoping that this is the information that I needed. I only wish I had the money for a gold membership at this point in my life
Unfortunately I missed the first four and can not afford to buy the program (which seems excellent value!) As a CSA survivor/victim support person this information was very helpful to assist in understanding trauma and when listening to them.
As a holistic health coach working with clients with underlying issues to their presented physical issue such as over weight, relationship issues, cravings etc this was also helpful.
Thank you.
Ruth
I found the series really informative. I plan on utilizing some of the techniques in my practice working with First Responders who have either been dx with classic or complex ptsd or have been exposed to trauma in their role.
I will certainly pay even more attention to their posture, movement, and expression. I already do but use it mostly a diagnostic tool to help me gauge my help/intervention. Thinking about helping them become more aware of their body is exciting and inspiring. However, I feel I will need a lot more education in that area before I can engage clients in body therapy.
Thank you for this very stimulating presentation.
I plan to look into ways that we could offer yoga to our clients of our agency who are on disability with Medicaid insurance. I also liked the idea of changing the perception pattern of the traumatic event.
I’m a RN who works with Veterans, I became interested in this series however for my Daughter who was injuried while backpacking by a rock slide. She was buried by rock sustaining life theartening injuries. After a year the physical injuries are healing but the emotional ones seem to be worsening. She has a constant sense of doom. Becomes anxious quickly. She does have a frontal lobe TBI. I’m not sure what is the TBI and what is PTSD. It has been challenging finding help for her and knowing as Mom how to help. This series has been helpful thank you!
Thank you for this wonderful video series. As someone who has dealt with early childhood trauma, including pre-birth during their life I have recently revisited some remaining issues relating to anger. Have found the series very useful in that it has given me more understanding of what is happening. It has also given me the courage to carry on writing my story which I hope might be useful to others, current working title 58 Million Icecreams: A Journey From Abuse to Enlightenment.
This was a great seminar! I was familiar with much of it already from other seminars and books by these presenters but putting it all together like this was really helpful.
I have found these videos wonderful. They’ve been beautifully put together, technical material has been well explained, and the case material demonstrating the theory with practical examples. As one who is frustrated with the medical model of medications and the psychological responses linked to CBT, I have valued reinforcement of the creative, sensory and bodily work I have been trained to do. Your presentations have put the science behind this and validated my work, as well as giving me moreconfidence in what I’m doing. Thank you to all concerned, and to Ruth for your warmth and intelligent, accessible framing of the material.
I am so very grateful to have been able to watch/listen to these each week. As a graduate student funds are not available to purchase things aside from food/fuel, yet the education and the information is so absolutely critical to being able to learn to do this work with any amount of grace and skill… I would purchase if possible! Took as many notes each week as I could, often listening to the broadcasts 2x. Happy about this! My field placement with Holocaust survivors brings up so many questions for me about how to really give people any measure of relief beyond the expression of social services, especially when mental health “counseling” is stigmatized or unattractive by assumption. I would like to learn more about ways to engage people in conversation about somatic experiences.
I work at a shelter dealing with victims of DV who have various levels of traumatic experiences. Some of them have problems that are so entrenched and talk therapy has not helped. Techniques learned in this program have definitely given me skills to tackle these cases in a different manner. My gratitude for this information . I feel that our entire staff should become familiar with this knowledge It will give a more comprehensive understanding of trauma to the staff even though they may not engage in direct therapy with the survivors.
What a great series! My major learning experience was how to work with a client’s trauma from bottom up
This series has been phenomenal, both from a professional standpoint (I am a Master NLP practitioner and work with the unconscious mind) and from a personal one. The whole reason I have come to do this work myself is from my own past trauma, and how amazing my transformation has been. This last webinar in particular has been incredibly helpful, and I am now confident that I can finally address the autonomic responses that have been locked in my body for years. This has been a missing part both in my professional counselling treatment and in the education and training I have as a coach. I will be implementing it right away into my practice knowing now that I have the full solution to help those who like me were not quite 100% reconnected throughout the brain and body. I really cannot thank you enough. I will be recommending this series and hopefully I will be able to bring this work into my community as well. Every coach needs to know this.
This was mind blowing and very emotional for me. I think it’s wonderful you are spreading it for therapists. But I am not a therapist. I am a person who might benefit from this work – plus I have family that really needs it. Where do we get this kind of work?? I live in Los Angeles. Thank you. Also unfortunately, I only hopped on to the last video session. Will you ever run the series for free again?
I really appreciated how this last session brought different elements of the other sessions together and brought in movement. I do brainspotting with clients as a way of reprocessing trauma. It works well but most clients do it while sitting still. I am going to try coupling it with movement.
I commented earlier,
My Daughter and I are going to purchase Gold Membership to share, but we both need the 10 CE/CME. How can we both get the 10 hours. Thank you.
I am with community of narcissistic victims. I pull coexperience evenings, to talk of understanding in order to survive. We fall bac on true therapy from officials and psychologists on “easy access” level. There are hundreds of us who struggle in physical symptoms from long term abuse mentally and for some physical. We are forced on medics.
Police and social administrators do not understand what it is that NPD persons do, when the attack is on towards inner family relationship members. Just lately police has announced of awareness against malicious talk from a parent to a child in smearing the other parent, in courts this shows up in harming the child’s benefits and mind state (makes the child to be afraid of it’s own parent, a long term trauma is guaranteed.). In most cases at child welfare, the social worker is the victims (child with victimized parent) worst enemy, by executing N’s mind on them. Thus, making victims of structure violence also, this too takes years of their lives, often the children are torn from the parent who sook help to end violence.
I thank you for the great research for this, the persons of open mind who sook to find real help on traumatized persons <3 I have taken this material seriously profound and useful in understanding the bottom line and how to resolve face to face this. Body awareness has given immediate good results. As I am traumatized my self in very very long time and physically just over a year ago, lost all income and no way to have proper treatment, I share my learning time with “traumatime” and helping time with other victims by EMDR and EFT tapping ( I am EFT therapist of "positive outcom" vocation. These past weeks has helped many around me and my self. Can’t afford to buy this, I hope this understanding comes soon to all around the world in practice with no cost, because humankind needs this <3
You are awesome people, who did this research!
Respectfully : “A Little ME” Satu
Excellent!
Hello, All!
I was fascinated to watch this presentation today! I am not a practitioner, but am constructing a paper for school and studying EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping) as to how it helps people with PTSD, any trauma and/or any experience or bad habit a person wants to change. On watching/hearing today’s presentation, I was able to incorporate some of the information in a draft of the project (properly citing). I was astounded at some of the findings you all were sharing and I really cannot wait to learn more (being personally interested in brain studies, psychology, health & wellness and more). I am very excited and at one point, what you were sharing brought tears. This to me indicated that your merely sharing also offers hope for healing for people (which it did me). Thank you each so much for what you are doing to bring your studies and findings to us! Beautiful, beautiful work! 🙂
I enjoyed the series. I wish there had been subtitles from the beginning. A lot of video feeds made it difficult to understand some of the speakers. I wish the cost for the gold subscription was lower and I would definitely purchase it. It’s just not in my budget right now. I will continue to research the speakers’ works and books to help me incorporate their tools into my practice.
I have an Occupational Therapy background and I am also training in trauma. Due to financially challenging life circumstances, I am treating myself & my adult son at home, in working through significant past traumas from domestic violence. I find it challenging sometimes, when observing my son starting to go into freeze or explosive mode, to get him to touch\hold the part of himself that it is pain\stuck (Bessel van der Kolk, Pat Ogden), as he is often unable to describe his body sensations. However, I am able to get him to move (get up from the couch, go down to his basement studio to do drumming & singing etc). It seems easier to talk him through the various processes, explaining the reasons that they work, even while he is in freeze mode. I sense that he still has his frontal lobes partially online, even at these times of turmoil and he tends to respond to key words that may give him relief & sense of soothing & safety. Has anyone had success (and\or problems) with doing in-home treatment, while wearing the hat of parent & therapist at the same time? I find that, while maintaining this delicate balance seems tricky, it is better than not doing the work at all, as the interpersonal connection seems to be a critical part of attachment repair & helping my son to self-regulate.