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What if there is no “normal” to return to after long-term PTSD? Be unfaithful...
I tagged a customer review of a book on Amazon because it moved me and I wanted to track comments on the review. It spoke to me. (The book is In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and...
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A model for experiencing and recovering from trauma: Peter Levine’s story
A few days ago, I finally started reading In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, by Peter A. Levine. This book comes full circle from Waking the Tiger, Levine’s first...
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More about my trauma recovery process (my hero’s journey)
Whew. I am going through a period in which I am feeling rather slammed — commuting several days a week 30 miles for a temp job, pet- and house-sitting, running errands after work, trying to do at least...
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Comment on “Trauma release heavy heart”
Sometimes a reader responds to a blog post that appeared a long while ago. Today I received a comment on Trauma release heavy heart, originally published on October 4, 2010. I wrote that post after...
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My trauma recovery manifesto: the deepest compassion, the strongest boundary
I originally posted this earlier this year. Yesterday I received this comment: Well said! I’m a clergy person with PTSD who can handle almost any trauma while in the collar thanks to good training and...
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An interview with Stephen Porges: polyvagal theory, or how the nervous system...
Nexus, Colorado’s Holistic Health and Spirituality Journal. This interview with Dr. Stephen Porges, whose career is based on understanding the evolution of the human nervous system, outlines some of...
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Immobilization/shutdown/dissociation/frozen, a trauma response built into the...
Back in March 2012, I posted that I had started reading Peter A. Levine’s latest book, In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness. My post included excerpts from Levine’s...
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Sympathetic hyperarousal/fight or flight: another trauma response built into...
I’ve written about different “layers” of the nervous system being activated by trauma. I posted earlier about the most primitive (in terms of evolution) layer, which experiences...
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Intuition, microexpressions, hypervigilance, and trauma
When Intuition Is A Curse. When people come into my office and tell me, very early in a conversation, that they are ‘intuitive’ and ‘can see into people’ I often wonder if they have had trauma. The...
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Mr. Rogers and 5 random acts of kindness for each person who died
This has been quoted on Facebook about how to help young children who encounter scary things in the news: When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for...
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Trauma never goes completely away
Trauma never goes completely away My friend Spike shared a link to this New York Times article on Facebook, and since trauma and recovery are themes on this blog, I thought I’d share it here. The...
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A tale of recovery: my path from traumatized to healer
I had lunch a few weeks ago with John, someone I’ve known for about 12 years but haven’t seen much in recent years. He commented that I am a very different person now from when he met me, and that...
View ArticleAfter #MeToo, Aikido.
Times are changing. The sheer number of women who have come forward with tales of being sexually harassed or assaulted by Harvey Weinstein has opened up a national conversation that is long overdue.`...
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Yesterday was rough. A dear friend for over 20 years was in the hospital having breast cancer surgery with preparation for reconstruction. We’d had ceremony Wednesday night for support, a gathering of...
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Sometimes I have second thoughts. My wild mind gets half-baked ideas that are so exciting, and the next day they don’t look that good. I took down my most recent post that was like that. It’s just not...
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