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What’s New:
- Interview with Daniel Foor about intergenerational trauma and ancestral healing. Full interview in Special Topics
- Basics for Healing Developmental Trauma, an 8 module course, free to all Learning Forum members! In Courses
- 3 new guided practices to support self regulation in Tool Kit
- 4 new basic concepts to help you understand how to work with your nervous system in Regulation 101
- Full length presentations for Preschool and Elementary School Teachers and Counselors in Special Topics
Healing from Trauma? First check your brakes
If you’re working on healing your trauma, you’ll want to avoid triggers as much as possible, but when you’re trying new methods and working with your nervous system’s over active stress responses, you’ll want to make sure you know how to reset after overwhelm hits. Here are some ideas about how to work with triggers and practice your “brakes”.
Help for the Harsh Inner Critic
Ever feel like you are your worst critic? What if that critic is so toxic you get stuck? It happens. Here is a video and my best tips for starting to change your relationship with your harsh inner self.
7 Ways to Stay Regulated (and reduce stress) for the School Year
Does your family start out excited for the new school year with lots of energy and then quickly lose steam? Here are 7 ideas to keep the energy going for the school year. Hint: it’s all about regulation!
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.
The Purgatory of “Why?”
Posted on June 8, 2015 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 a few months came in for her...
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!
How to Tell Your Doctor about Somatic Experiencing™
Once you start having Somatic Experiencing™ sessions, you might want to tell your other helping professionals what you’re up to. People often say, “I told my doctor I was coming here and tried to explain it, but I don’t know if I was saying the right thing.” Sometimes clients want me to talk to their psychiatrist, psychologist or doctor. With time constraints that some professionals have, it might be important to have something you can say succinctly so that they get the idea.
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!
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).
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.