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Andreas Moritz • Lifting the Veil of Duality

there are many subtle, insidious forms of trauma that evoke the same set of responses in the body and nervous system.

Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

One of the most devastating effects of trauma is that people’s biology changes into a biology of threat; this is expressed on multiple levels, in stress hormones, immunology and what the brain selects to pay attention to. The intrinsic reward system changes, as do “attractors”—what turns you on or leaves you cold. As a consequence, traumatized peop... See more

Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. • The Body Keeps The Score

If the healing process can’t run to completion, the person’s nervous system is never able to relax all the way back down to the ground state, and their body continues to hold some chronic tension.

Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

To be traumatized is to rarely or never feel truly safe. In the absence of that felt sense of safety, trauma leaves our bodies largely stuck in the hands of the aggressive Yellow and dissociative Red systems—or at least makes it a whole lot harder for us to get to Green.

Stephen W. Porges • Our Polyvagal World

Instead, we focus on relational attunement and ease for the client and their biology, both inside and outside therapy sessions.

Maurizio Stupiggia • Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives

The stress hormones of traumatized people, in contrast, take much longer to return to baseline and spike quickly and disproportionately in response to mildly stressful stimuli.

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Trauma is not merely psychological but also physiological

Stephen W. Porges • Our Polyvagal World

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.