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 my breath. While I am on the mat, there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, …
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 a history of abandoning yourself, takes time. You have to prove to yourself, and the inner …
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 by everyone. Here are some journal prompts based on resilience research: What can I do to …
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 felt like an alien growing up in my family, I found it difficult to connect with …
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 million adults have PTSD, so the likelihood of working with, living with or encountering someone with …
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 having grown substantially from the experience? If you have, this is what is referred to as …
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 builds resilience and grit. It is in our DNA to overcome and survive. Can trauma be …
Trauma & Secure Attachment
When we experience trauma as a child and our mother (or primary caregiver) is not attuned to our needs this is an attachment trauma. 50% of the population have an insecure attachment style. This means the mother was not available …
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 distressed and to assist them in returning to their window of tolerance. I like to think …
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 which can lead to the integration of past and present, belief and body, emotion and meaning.” …