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VIDEO: Bessel van der Kolk on Effective Trauma Treatment with EMDR
Trauma is about horror. A horrendous reality that you don't want to remember...
Our clients are often dealing with the unspeakable. Are you using tools that promote healing, or are you re-traumatizing the people who've come to you for help?
Listen to this fascinating case in this free short video —and learn insights on the ONE TOOL all trauma therapists should have.
Fifth Annual Joining Forces Wellness Week Highlights Health Care Needs of Veterans, Military Service Members and Their Families
Joining Forces Wellness Week takes place Nov. 7-11. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in collaboration with the White House Joining Forces staff and the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, will show a free webinar series on the health and wellness of military service members and veterans. Professionals will earn one free hour of CE credit for each webinar they attend.
What Does a Slinky Have to do with Trauma?
What if the traumatic event wasn't the cause of trauma? It's time to rethink trauma by looking to the body's memory of the event, not the mind's interpretation of the story. In this short video, Peter Levine explains how the body holds the energy of trauma and why we can't begin to process the emotional suffering until we first resolve trauma on the physiological level.
Lion Breathing
Melt stress and tension from your face
For all the time we spend stretching our body, how often do we pause to stretch our face? With Lion Breathing you can quickly and easily relieve stress and tension by stretching your face.
Working Through Trauma with Yoga: Healing heart meditation
The Healing Heart Meditation allows us to bring ourselves to the awareness that joy is our natural birthright and our inherent nature. As we connect to our deepest self, we find the strength to let go of pain.
Bessel van der Kolk's Trauma Treatment Discovery
For 40 years, as both a researcher and a clinician, Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., has studied those living with trauma. Among them were soldiers, torture victims, child abuse survivors, and many others. What has he determined after years of research?
Yoga for Trauma Treatment: 3 somatic interventions
When you use trauma-sensitive yoga as a therapeutic intervention with your clients, part of your role is to monitor the state of your client's autonomic nervous system, and to use somatic interventions when they need to bring it back into regulation. Here are 3 somatic interventions you can use with your client.
Putting the Pieces Together: Janina Fisher's perspective on the history of trauma treatment
Twenty-five years ago, who would have thought that the experience of joy had a place in trauma treatment? We began with the belief that excavating dark and unspeakable horrors would set trauma survivors free. But in this new age of trauma treatment, we aim to help our clients find the light-or at least to find their bodies, their resources, and their resilience.
Stop Reinforcing Shame with this Body Posture
If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this...