This video was developed as a basic introduction to a Polyvagal view of how trauma and chronic stress affect our nervous system.
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Dr Stephen Porges Reveals How to Increase Feelings of Emotional Safety: In this episode of Mayim Bialik's podcast, Breakdown, Dr. Porges addresses important questions like:
This recording is from the Polyvagal Institute's 2022 International Gathering, where Seth Porges shared his insight on Polyvagal Theory. Seth Porges is co-author of Our Polyvagal World, written with Dr. Stephen Porges
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Contrary to popular belief, trauma is extremely common. We all have jobs, life events, and unpleasant situations causing us daily stress. But when your body continues to re-live that stress for days, weeks, months, or even years, that stress changes your brain, creating trauma inside your mind, and that trauma can eventually manifest in your physical body.
As you can see, trauma isn’t what happens to you, but how you respond to the traumatic situation. Something that is traumatic to one person may be no big deal to the next. Whether something becomes traumatic or not has a great deal to do with who’s around you while you experience this event. Were you alone and scared, were you comforted by friends and family? The problem with trauma is that it starts when something happens to us, but that’s not where it stops - it changes your brain.
Once your brain changes and you’re in constant fight or flight mode, it can be hard to stay focused, feel joy, or experience pleasure until this trauma is healed. Luckily, modern psychological practices are developing innovative ways to heal from trauma that actually work.
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Dr, Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.
Dr. Gabor Mate talks about how big is the impact of our emotions to our physical body; and how this impacts everyone since early ages. Dr. Gabor Mate talks a lot about trauma and how it really affects us if we don't make it conscious.
Conventional psychiatric practices tell us that if we feel bad, take this drug and it will go away. But after years of research with some of the top psychiatric practitioners in the world, we’ve found that drugs simply don’t work that well for many, and our conventional ways of healing trauma need to change.
In recent years, experts in the study of trauma have been experimenting with ‘new age’ healing mechanisms that are making massive waves for trauma patients.
Some of these new healing methods include EDMR, yoga, theater and movement, neural feedback, and even psychedelics. Many of these methods have proven to be more effective than conventional pharmaceuticals. But just like any other health regimen, what works for you might not work for your friend or neighbor.
In this insightful video, renowned trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté delves into the holistic approach to healing emotional wounds, emphasizing the crucial role of compassion for oneself and others.
Learn how storytelling and narratives play a vital role in understanding human experiences, emotional dynamics, and the path to recovery. Explore the profound impact of childhood adversity on emotional well-being and why validating emotions, especially in children, is key to fostering resilience.
Dr. Maté also reveals how life's challenges—like grief and disappointment—are natural parts of our journey and essential to personal growth.
This video uncovers the powerful connection between relationships, emotional health, and physical well-being, highlighting the concept of "interbeing" and the importance of mindfulness in addiction recovery. Dr. Maté discusses the importance of creating safe, compassionate spaces for healing and why understanding family dynamics is crucial in overcoming addiction. can benefit.
In this free e-book, Bessel van der Kolk, Pat Ogden, Ruth Lanius, and Peter Levine will give you some of their most effective interventions to help clients heal from trauma: https://www.nicabm.com/join-treating-...
Peter Levine, PhD, offers 2 body-oriented techniques that clients can use to make themselves feel safe outside of your session. These are simple methods that you can immediately add to your toolbox for the treatment of trauma. There are several psychotherapy techniques that can help clients with a trauma history feel more secure. But the problem is, the ring of safety which we create in our office can often disappear once the client steps out the door.
In this video, Dr. Levine will use the principles of somatic experiencing in two effective strategies your client can use to self-regulate, any place, any time. This is important. Because one of the first things we need to do for clients who have experienced trauma is to resource them. We need to help them learn self-soothing tools for the times when they feel threatened. This alone can be one of the most critical steps for healing trauma.
The somatic techniques Peter Levine offers in this video can help your client if they struggle with sleeplessness or nightmares. They can also help to calm negative feelings and give the client a sense of boundary within their body.
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