Sublime

trauma. I have found that the newer energy psychology technologies, such as Emotional Freedom Technique (“tapping”) and Matrix Reimprinting, can facilitate this process rapidly and with a minimum of difficulty, but again, the practitioner must be skilled at managing the client’s level of intensity so that she doesn’t go into overwhelm

What we are attempting to do is offer the trapped child the nurturing behavior it required at the time but did not receive from the parents. The fact is that you, the patient, are the only one capable of reaching that cut-off fragment of your self and doing this essential re-parenting.

The idea behind cognitive behavioral treatment is that when patients are repeatedly exposed to the stimulus without bad things actually happening, they gradually will become less upset; the bad memories will have become associated with “corrective” information of being safe.

Some discoveries I made about parts: •Even the most destructive parts have protective intentions. •Parts are often frozen in past traumas when their extreme roles were needed. •When they trust it’s safe to step out of their roles, they are highly valuable to the system.

Somatic Experiencing developed by Peter Levine, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy developed by Pat Ogden, and the work of Bessel van der Kolk.

Viorst goes on to say, “Severe separations in early life leave emotional scars on the brain because they assault the essential human connection: The mother-child bond which teaches us that we are lovable. The mother-child bond that teaches us how to love. We cannot be whole human beings—indeed, we may find it hard to be human—without the sustenance