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#Repost @leannesawchuktherapy (@get_repost) ・・・ Enough said. . . . . #trauma #traumainformed #traumatherapist #treatingtrauma #peterlevine #somaticexperiencing #therapy #therapistofinstagram #therapist #healing #bodymemory #traumarecovery #traumatherapy #psychotherapist #psychotherapy #instadaily #instagram #instalike #traumawarrior #cptsd #ptsd #childhoodtrauma @drpeteralevine /../ #embodiment #traumainformedembodiment #traumatherapist #complextrauma #cptsd

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So if you haven’t heard of Gabor Mate, having spent all day hearing him speak compassion and wisdom, I feel even more confident that this is truly transformational work. If you’ve had trauma in your life I’d recommend any of his books and if a parent ‘Hold onto your kids’ by both Dr Neufeld and Gabor Mate are essential to developing strong attachments. They maintain that children’s biggest fear is the loss of the attachment relationship. Current methods of sleep training, punishments including timeout as well as rewards and the lack of education around the healing effects of crying and raging in children is profoundly damaging our children’s attachment relationships which affect the rest of our lives. We can change this ❤️ #awareparenting #gabormate #handinhandparenting #drneufeld #parenting #traumahealing #somaticexperiencing #bethechange

⁣ If you're experiencing post-traumatic symptoms, know that what is happening to you is a normal response to an overwhelming experience. Trauma leads to impaired integration in the brain, and symptoms like hypervigilance, mental images from the event(s), and sensory or emotional flashbacks are your brain's way of attempting to integrate what's happened. There's nothing "wrong" with you. You are not "broken". You have sustained a psychophysiological injury. And injuries can heal. ⁣ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣ What is the key to healing from traumatic injury? Integration! Dr. Dan Siegel recently said that the purpose of trauma therapy is to create greater integration in the brain. What does that look like? It happens in two ways: 1) horizontally by uniting the right and left hemispheres, such as through the bilateral stimulation of EMDR, and 2) vertically by unifying the primitive, emotional and thinking parts of the brain. Vertical integration is accomplished by bringing mindful awareness to one's sensory and emotional experience while allowing the body to complete appropriate actions, including incomplete self-protection responses of fight or flight that were thwarted at the time of the traumatic event. IMHO, vertical integration can only happen with somatic psychotherapies that work on all levels of the brain, body, and nervous system simultaneously. ⁣ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣ To all of you who are in a process of post-traumatic healing, I see you. Remember, you can heal from trauma!

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We all know what happens when we feel humiliated: We put all our energy into protecting ourselves, developing whatever survival strategies we can. We may repress our feelings; we may get furious and plot revenge. We may decide to become so powerful and successful that nobody can ever hurt us again. Many behaviors that are classified as psychiatric problems, including some obsessions, compulsions, and panic attacks, as well as most self-destructive behaviors, started out as strategies for self-protection. These adaptations to trauma can so interfere with the capacity to function that health-care providers and patients themselves often believe that full recovery is beyond reach. Viewing these symptoms as permanent disabilities narrows the focus of treatment to finding the proper drug regimen, which can lead to lifelong dependence—as though trauma survivors were like kidney patients on dialysis. It is much more productive to see aggression or depression, arrogance or passivity as learned behaviors: Somewhere along the line, the patient came to believe that he or she could survive only if he or she was tough, invisible, or absent, or that it was safer to give up. Like traumatic memories that keep intruding until they are laid to rest, traumatic adaptations continue until the human organism feels safe and integrates all the parts of itself that are stuck in fighting or warding off the trauma. Every trauma survivor I’ve met is resilient in his or her own way, and every one of their stories inspires awe at how people cope. Knowing how much energy the sheer act of survival requires keeps me from being surprised at the price they often pay: the absence of a loving relationship with their own bodies, minds, and souls.- Bessel van der Kolk, MD #thebodykeepsthescore #besselvanderkolk #cptsd #did #internalfamilysystems #partswork #childhoodtrauma #ptsd #somaticexperiencing #dissociation #dissociativedisorder #addiction #healingtrauma

"Because we can now identify the brain circuits involved in the alarm system, we know, more or less, what was happening in Annie’s brain as she sat that first day in my waiting room: Her smoke detector, her amygdala, had been rewired to interpret certain situations as harbingers of life-threatening danger, and it was sending urgent signals to her survival brain to fight, freeze, or flee. Annie had all these reactions simultaneously—she was visibly agitated and mentally shut down. As we’ve seen, broken alarm systems can manifest in various ways, and if your smoke detector malfunctions, you cannot trust the accuracy of your perceptions. For example, when Annie started to like me she began to look forward to our meetings, but she would arrive at my office in an intense panic. One day she had a flashback of feeling excited that her father was coming home soon—but later that evening he molested her. For the first time, she realized that her mind automatically associated excitement about seeing someone she loved with the terror of being molested. Small children are particularly adept at compartmentalizing experience, so that Annie’s natural love for her father and her dread of his assaults were held in separate states of consciousness. As an adult Annie blamed herself for her abuse, because she believed that the loving, excited little girl she once was had led her father on—that she had brought the molestation upon herself. Her rational mind told her this was nonsense, but this belief emanated from deep within her emotional, survival brain, from the basic wiring of her limbic system. It would not change until she felt safe enough within her body to mindfully go back into that experience and truly know how that little girl had felt and acted during the abuse."~ THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE PART FIVE : Paths to Recovery 16. Learning to Inhabit Your Body: YOGA credit: @teachinginthecommomwealth #thebodykeepsthescore #besselvanderkolk #traumasensitiveyoga #traumainformedyoga #ptsdrecovery #cptsdrecovery #cptsd #emdr #somaticexperiencing #restorativeyoga #yinyoga #addictionrecovery #anxietyrecovery

If your wounds have led you to these beliefs, please know: . You are enough. Just as you are. . You are not too much. You don’t need to make yourself small. You deserve to take up space. . #embodiedcounseling #healing #innerchildprotector #cptsd #attachment #traumahealing #youareenough #innerchildwork #emdrtherapy #emdr #innerchild #ifs #somaticexperiencing #empower #wounds #nervoussystem #therapy #counseling #somatic #yoga #traumaresolution #issuesinthetissues #embrace #traumainformed #woundscanheal

While I’m much better able to distinguish the difference between my own internally generated feelings and those I pick up on externally, there was a time when this not so easy and very overwhelming and confusing. . One of the most helpful things for me was to understand what my anxiety was trying to tell me. The more I understood the root causes of my own anxiety, I was better able to distinguish when it was my own vs. when I had subconsciously picked up on the energy of someone else. . I would usually go down my “anxiety checklist” and if nothing resonated, i would work with my modalities (Pilates, Breathwork, and Qigong) to see if that would provide any additional insight. If not, often times it was just my extra special nervous system picking up details from my external environment. (A sign in itself to work on better energetic boundaries ) . Here’s my checklist - got anything to add from what you’ve learned about your own anxiety? Share it in the comments below! . If I’m feeling a lot of anxiety, it’s usually because: I’m ignoring, suppressing, or resisting my intuition/ intuitive guidance. I’m pushing the boundaries of my comfort zone (a good thing but calls for a little extra gentleness and self care) I’m trying too hard to control chaos and need to let go a little. I’m scared of the unknown or of being vulnerable and need to tell myself that who I am is enough, will always be enough, and that it’s okay to ask for help. I’m trying to do too much and I need to slow down and rest. I’m too focused on what others need or might be thinking and I need to check in with my own needs. I’m not eating well or enough. Food affects mood! I’m avoiding feeling my feelings (grief, general hurt, anger, etc.) . When you start to see emotions as information, FEELING becomes a lot more empowering.