This blog offers a detailed exercise and video to help you process fear using an Internal Family Systems framework. The focus is on finding acceptance for the fear parts.
What is Trauma? What makes an experience traumatic? As therapists, in order to treat trauma, we first have to understand what trauma is and what it’s not. In this video, Tori provides an overview of the causes and types of trauma and how these experiences often lead to symptoms of PTSD in our clients. She differentiates between single event trauma or “big T” trauma and “little t” trauma that arises from chronic stressors or emotional abuse. For example, stress during childhood can lead to attachment trauma. Other examples of “little t” or chronic traumas are racial trauma or insidious trauma.
What is trauma exactly? Or the ever-elusive concept known as the “flow state”? And why do some people just flat-out creep us out? It can all be explained by the autonomic nervous system — our body’s autopilot that keeps our heart beating, our lungs breathing, and our gut digesting; without us even thinking about it. The Polyvagal Theory is a new understanding of how our nervous system works, and explains everything from trauma, to the very essence of social behavior; while shedding light on possible treatments for autism and trauma. You’ll never think of your body and brain the same way again.
Do you get anxious, angry, or shut down, and don’t know why?
This video walks you through the basics of our brain and body and how our inner psyche works. The good news is that it’s all adaptive. And even better news, if you want it to be, it’s also something you can treat and heal.
This is a very short animated video about Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS).
Why you feel lost in life and how to find your true self again
Beyond Trauma is a psychotherapy podcast from therapists for clients about the journey of trauma recovery
This is a very short animated video about Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
Irene Lyon is a practitioner of SE, and a thinker and healer regarding helping people unwind old trauma patterns. Here, Irene explains the basics of the nervous system and how trauma can effect how we function.