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bodies. Our bodies have a form of knowledge that is different from our cognitive brains. This knowledge is typically experienced as a felt sense of constriction or expansion, pain or ease, energy or numbness. Often this knowledge is stored in our bodies as wordless stories about what is safe and what is dangerous. The body is where we fear, hope,
... See moreLICSW MSW Resmaa Menakem • My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
During the course of treatment, orientation stands as a safe proxy for this complex, while capacity is grown for actual social engagement. The sensory system is a primary contributor to axes of interconnection and has been implicated in an fMRI study as a deficit in adults with PTSD (Leite et al., 2022).
Maurizio Stupiggia • Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives
The somatic orientation within this process is particular. We explore what has shaped us, what has informed our conditioned tendencies, or survival strategies. What their benefit and cost have been in our lives. And, where they live in the soma. We can also use this to explore and get to know our resilience or our longings, and how these live in
... See moreStaci Haines • The Politics of Trauma
treatments must increasingly align with the client’s biology and self-organizing complexity.
Maurizio Stupiggia • Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives
IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Over time, research with EMDR found that the important element in reducing the disturbance is not the eye movement, but the alternating movement
Michael Emmons • Your Perfect Right: Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships
While the focus is on the brain, our notion of mind is more accurately seen as a whole body system. It is from this system that our stories are formed in the moment and over time. This is why we work to get people out of their heads and into their bodies when we coach.
David B Drake • Narrative Coaching: The Definitive Guide to Bringing New Stories to Life
Like me, most people focus only the bright side and miss the moon's dark face, that is, the Dreaming reality.
Arnold Mindell • Dreaming While Awake
Dual roles (for example, we’re the person’s coach and supervisor), which set up internal dissonance • Contractual limitations on how long we can work with a person or on what can be discussed • Cultural impediments (for example, our cultural bias toward separating mind and body and valuing thinking over being)