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Trauma

18
Sep
2016
Gentle Fall Transition: Day Ten – Plan, come back to now, repeat.
Posted On September 18, 2016  By admin  And has No Comment

Plan.  Come back to now.  Plan.  Come back to now. focus on something pleasant.  One small, likable thing, Before you once again plan, and again come back to now. Why bother coming back to now?  Now, full of imperfection, distraction, uncertainty, worry? Because now is the […]

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30
Mar
2016
Rick Hanson on Letting Go
Posted On March 30, 2016  By admin  And has No Comment

The practices — simple actions inside your mind — light up neural networks of deep well-being and resilience. And because “neurons that fire together, wire together,” each time you do a practice, it strengthens key neural circuits like building a muscle in the gym. Each practice […]

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22
Jan
2016
How Mindfulness Can Help Resolve Childhood Trauma
Posted On January 22, 2016  By admin  And has No Comment

The mindfulness resurgence has been a gift to us all especially in our fast paced and un-present tech-driven lifestyles. While empirical research has yet to officially conclude that mindfulness is effective with trauma/PTSD, good trauma therapists have known for decades that being aware of a trigger […]

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22
Jan
2016
How Mindfulness Can Help Resolve Childhood Trauma
Posted On January 22, 2016  By admin  And has No Comment

The mindfulness resurgence has been a gift to us all especially in our fast paced and un-present tech-driven lifestyles. While empirical research has yet to officially conclude that mindfulness is effective with trauma/PTSD, good trauma therapists have known for decades that being aware of a trigger […]

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01
Nov
2015
Interoception: the potential of embodied mindfulness
Posted On November 1, 2015  By admin  And has No Comment

By Contributing writer and trauma recover expert, Dave Emerson At the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, we have been using modified yoga as an adjunctive treatment for complex trauma since 2003. Complex trauma is a clinical phenomenon that describes what happens when people live in chronically […]

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03
Oct
2015
40 Days of Letting Go: Day 33 ~ Let it go or let it be?
Posted On October 3, 2015  By admin  And has No Comment

Some life events cause a distinct chasm –  on one side stands “before,”  on the other side “after.”  The deeper the chasm, the more desperately we my try to get back to “before.”  Chronic illness, a break-up, addiction, the death of a loved one.  When we […]

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01
Oct
2015
40 Days of Letting Go: Day 31 ~ Stop putting self-care on the back burner
Posted On October 1, 2015  By admin  And has 3 Comments

Compassion fatigue, also known as secondary trauma, burn-out, vicarious trauma, or empathetic strain is an occupational hazard for therapists, health-care professionals, parents and other care-givers.  It’s a catch-22 that only deeply caring people are susceptible to compassion fatigue, and only deeply caring people become care-givers.  Compassion […]

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22
Mar
2015
Mindfulness in a Crisis 
Posted On March 22, 2015  By admin  And has No Comment

Tips for navigating unexpected, unwanted change.

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12
Aug
2011
Using Yoga and Mindfulness to Heal Trauma
Posted On August 12, 2011  By admin  And has No Comment

In yoga studios around the world people are stretching, breathing and practicing stress reduction, and, maybe without even knowing it, healing from traumatic events. For millennia yogis have used this ancient philosophy as a way of harnessing emotions and regulating mental and physical health.  While many […]

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