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Category Archives: Healing
Healing the Mother Wound
It’s Mother’s Day in the U.S. and I don’t want to spoil it for you if it’s good. For many people it’s a mixed bag. I want to talk to those of you who know (or suspect) you didn’t get … Continue reading
Posted in developmental trauma, Healing, self-regulation, trauma recovery
Tagged developmental trauma, healing, Somatic Experiencing
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Reducing Stress: Think of a Snow Globe
Two simple things you can do now to reduce stress and increase self-regulation. All from the wisdom of a snow globe. Continue reading
Posted in Healing, self-regulation
Tagged anxiety, healing, self-regulation, Somatic Experiencing, stress, support, trauma recovery
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Regulation in Action in Film: The Intern
One well regulated system can increase the calm in a chaotic group system. Here’s a great example in action – the Intern. Watch the film – you’ll really get it! Continue reading
The Added Dimension Most Therapies Miss
There is a dimension of trauma that often gets missed by helping professionals: the nervous system’s response. Find out how this knowledge can help reduce your symptoms of stress. Continue reading
Part 2: From Calm to Clarity – Reintegration
After we work to stabilize symptoms, the next phase that arises is reintegration. This is when incomplete self-protective responses appear and are ready to be worked with. Read my coming out of freeze story and share your own! After freeze comes fight/flight and then into our healthy state of connection to Self and others (social engagement). Continue reading
Posted in Healing, reintegration
Tagged Freeze, healing, reintegration, Somatic Experiencing, trauma recovery
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Riding the Wave of Emotions
When you let emotions flow through you, they don’t get stuck. Your body will contract around stuck emotions. Learn how to ride the waves of emotions while giving and/or receiving help from a trusted friend or partner. Continue reading
Posted in emotions, Healing, self-regulation
Tagged connection, emotions, empathy, healing, sadness, support
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From Chaos to Calm – Part 1: Creating a Container
The first phase of healing is stabilizing difficult symptoms. I call this building a container. Once peoples’ symptoms improve, things are usually a lot easier to manage. Then even deeper levels of healing become available. Find out more. Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Healing, PTSD, self-regulation, trauma recovery
Tagged anxiety, healing, ptsd, self-regulation, trauma recovery
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Thank Goodness for Chocolate??!
This is a story about my journey of changes that happened when my nervous system got more internally regulated. I changed a lifelong habit of relying on chocolate to manage stress. Unbelievable, but true! Continue reading
The Purgatory of “Why?”
If there were a version of Dante’s Inferno for trauma, the looping thought would surely be one of the tortures. “Why” is one that I’ve been hearing a lot lately. Last week, a client who has been seeing me for … Continue reading
7 Things We Learn About Trauma From Outlander
The last two episodes of Outlander season one have created a lot of buzz for the boundaries it pushes with its storyline of rape & torture of a male hero. As a trauma-healing-geek … Continue reading
You Have it in you to heal 