Yoga and Trauma
For me yoga is a form of self-care. When I am on the yoga mat, I slow down. I re-connect to my body and…
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How to start building self-trust
Self-trust has helped me a lot when building resilience. Like being in a relationship with anyone, building trust with yourself, especially if you have…
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Tips For Building Resilience
Resilience is “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress” and can be developed…
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Connect with Your Ancestral Strengths
When we look back at our ancestors, we can often find surprising, hidden strengths and things that connect us to our history. I often…
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Trauma Informed Perspective
Being ‘trauma informed’ is being called for in more and more spaces as society recognises the prevalence of PTSD. In any given year 8…
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Post Traumatic GROWTH (PTG)
Have you had a traumatic experience, which was painful and hard, and at the same time been aware of your inner self growing, or…
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Our “innate capacity to triumph over trauma” – Peter Levine
Humans have been working with trauma for eons. We have always been coping with wars, genocides, death, illness, and natural disaster. Overcoming these things…
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Deep Attunement for Trauma
THIS IS THE WORK As a therapist it is my job to be deeply attuned to my client, to notice when someone is becoming…
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Integrating Traumatic Experiences
“Effective treatments for trauma involve evoking the fragmented, cognitive, emotional and sensorimotor responses within the patient’s window of tolerance, and facilitating new, adaptive responses…
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How We Can Work Top-Down with The Brain to Heal Trauma
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) recommends the use of psychotherapy in the form of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to treat PTSD (APA, 2010). CBT…
