politicizing Siegel's Window of Tolerance
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politicizing Siegel's Window of Tolerance
In order to overcome trauma people need to feel safe enough to open up their hearts and minds to others and become engaged with new possibilities. This can only be done if trauma survivors, and their communities, are helped to confront and confess the reality of what has happened and are helped to feel safe again. In many non-Western cultures this... See more
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. • The Body Keeps The Score
The tool I use is Dan Siegel’s window of tolerance which is the space in which we can put up with intensity and arousal without becoming dysregulated. In our windows, we can meet unwanteds head-on without getting distressed. It takes practice, but you can increase your ability to be grounded and calm even when your trauma is being triggered. This... See more
How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
“That we cannot organize for collective liberation without tending to the nervous systems of the people doing the organizing.
That trauma is not just a personal experience, but a political condition—shaped by borders, by war, by racism, by colonial theft.
That healing is not separate from resistance—it is a form of it.
That we need slowness, presence,
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