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Somatic Psychotherapy in Campbell, CA

“Long-lasting responses to trauma result not simply from the experience of fear and helplessness but from how our bodies interpret those experiences.” ~Rachel Yehuda

Talking about trauma doesn’t make it go away.

If you have been told that, you were sold a bill of goods.

Focusing solely on the story of how the trauma happened can actually be dangerous. You can re-trigger the trauma, flooding yourself with intense, overwhelming emotions. Even your biology can change — if you keep re-living the story, you will strengthen the neural circuits for the trauma, cementing the trauma experience in yourself. That is the opposite of what you want.

Research shows that strong emotions, old patterns and trauma are held in the body. That means that to heal these old wounds you need to access body memories. Somatic therapy (soma means “of the body”) uses talk therapy, body awareness and mindfulness to access deep emotional pain to provide lasting relief from the pain.

Somatic psychotherapy is grounded in neuroscience, how the body stores memories, and how to release the pain of those memories.

Experiencing emotions in the body is a universal experience. A study done in 2013 shows that no matter where you come from geographically, the felt sense of emotions is the same. “More than 700 participants in Finland, Sweden and Taiwan participated in experiments aimed at mapping their bodily sensations in connection with specific emotions.”

Emotions can trigger body sensations, and body sensations can also trigger emotions, creating a feedback loop. With somatic psychotherapy, we can access painful emotions through body sensation and interrupt that feedback loop, creating lasting change.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Sensorimotor psychotherapy has been developed and refined over the last 40 years by Pat Ogden, founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and co-founder of the Hakomi Institute. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy blends traditional talk therapy with a mind-body approach to effectively treat childhood trauma, neglect and abandonment that often lead to PTSD and complex PTSD.

“Sensorimotor Psychotherapy blends theory and technique from cognitive and dynamic therapy with straightforward somatic awareness and movement interventions… that promote empowerment and competency.” ~Dr. Dan Siegel, award-winning educator, researcher and author

Great Books on Mind-Body Approaches:

Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body, Reginald Ray

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter Levine

The Body Remembers, Babette Rothschild

Articles on Somatic Psychotherapy in Trauma Treatment

“Putting the Pieces Together: 25 Years of Learning Trauma Treatment” | Download PDF Published in Psychotherapy Networker, May/June 2014.

“The Treatment of Structural Dissociation in Chronically Traumatized Patients” | Download PDF Published in In Anstorp & Benum (2014). Trauma treatment in practice: complex trauma and dissociation. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

“Clinical EFT as an Evidence-Based Practice for the Treatment of Psychological and physiological Conditions” | Download PDF

“Sensorimotor Approaches to Trauma Treatment” | Download PDF Published in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, July 2011.

“Attachment as a Sensorimotor Experience” | Download PDF Published in Attachement: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, July, 2011.

“Retraining the Brain: Harnessing Our Neuralplasticity” | Download PDF Published in the Psychotherapy Networker, March, 2011.

“Brain to Brain: The Therapist as Neurobiological Regulator” | Download PDF Published in the Psychotherapy Networker, January, 2010.

“Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma” | Download PDF

“Addictions and Trauma Recovery” | Download PDF

“Stabilization in the Treatment of Trauma” | Download PDF

“Self-harm and Suicidality” | Download PDF

“Dissociative Phenomena in the Everyday Lives of Trauma Survivors” | Download PDF

To learn more about Somatic Psychotherapy, click here.

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wisdomfish · 5 years

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Mindfulness has become a trendy word in counselling circles. What exactly is it, and why has it become so popular? This talk introduces the topic and provide a basic understanding of the practice. How do we often live in mindlessness? What are the links with Interpersonal Neurobiology and Dan Siegel’s concept of Mindsight?

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drkenmcgill · 6 years

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12 Steps to Change your Mind with Interpersonal Neurobiology

This is a post in the Choosing Change series inspired by the work of Dr. Dan Siegel, UCLA)

When your Brain and Mind engages in goal-oriented activity to develop skills that produce constructive, functional, and “win-win” Relationship outcomes with the Brain and Mind of your partner, your effort not only results in the creation of a Triangle of Well-being but your interactions with each other also…

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mado-science · 6 years

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The BEST book about BPD on the market!! Our young adult daughter has BPD, a devastating condition (as you know if you are reading this review), not only for her but for our entire family. Over the past 14 years, we have experienced many wrong diagnoses; countless trials with medications that did little to relieve her symptoms and in many cases made things much worse; and, perhaps most important, made us all feel that we were resigned to a life of pain and suffering. For the first time in 14 years, we have hope. I can't tell you how good it feels. Go to Amazon

Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change I highly recommend this book for anyone with a loved one with Borderline Personality Disorder or Borderline Traits. This book has revolutionized my relationship with family members. This book has allowed me to understand BPD and have compassion and understanding for the persons struggling with this disorder instead of judgement. When you want to maintain a relationship with a highly emotional person, you need tools for communication. This book has given me those tools. Within just days of reading this book, I began implementing the techniques I learned, and there was a breakthrough in my relationship with my estranged loved one that has lasted for several months now. I was also able to help my loved one find a place to receive DBT Therapy. The knowledge and skills I received from this book have achieved what 3 psychiatrists, 1 psychological evaluation, 1 mental hospital stay, and a handful of prescription drugs could not achieve--a path to knowledge and healing for my loved one and family members. I purchased 11 of these books and gave to each family member to help us all to learn to communicate with our BPD loved ones. Go to Amazon

Read this book! We have a family member who struggles with this illness so our entire family does. There is a shortage of family therapy in our area. This is a great book to educate families with while the family member is in individual therapy so that you can support what they are being taught. We would highly recommend this book. Go to Amazon

Great Book- understanding and working with BPD Very well written, easy to comprehend. A must read for anyone who's loved one (children included) has not been helped by regular therapy/counseling and where BPD is a possibility. DBT is spot on in so many ways, including addressing the present versus the past... Go to Amazon

While this is the third book I've purchased to better understand my Borderline family member While this is the third book I've purchased to better understand my Borderline family member, it is the most helpful. Still reading it but find her approach least damning for all involved and she focuses on educating the family to be part of the healing process. IF ONLY we had known what we were dealing with...if you suspect borderline, get this book! Go to Amazon

Gives real advise to caregivers like me who have loved ones with borderline personality disorder ... Outstanding book. Gives real advise to caregivers like me who have loved ones with borderline personality disorder and need to know how to help. She comments that if family of loved ones with physical illnesses learn ways to help, shouldn't families of loved ones with mental illnesses also learn ways to help. Certainly they should, and she tells us how. Go to Amazon

Scientific Foundation with Compassionate Perspective I have been studying Mindfulness as a tool for healing and especially interpersonal neurobiology and the work of Dr. Dan Siegel in the area of using Mindfulness to treat trauma. He talks about pre-frontal function and this amazing book really addresses the neurobiology of BPD. This really helped me understand my loved one (my 18 year old niece) who has the most classic case of BPD her doctors have seen. It is interesting to note there are usually 9 symptoms of BPD and 9 outcomes of Mindfulness practice and many coincide with each other. Go to Amazon

Must Read for BPD Sufferers and Their Family and Friends Good read for anyone that is dealing with BPD, or family/friends Must read This book is fantastic for helping other's have a better understanding of what ... Five Stars Best BPD guideline & support Four Stars Worth the read if your loved one has BPD. Excellent book on the subject Five Stars

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claudiablackcenter · 6 years

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Building Strength and Resilience through Facing and Dealing with Life’s Problems

Resilient qualities are not only what we’re born with but also the strengths that we build through encountering life’s challenges and developing the personal and interpersonal skills to meet them. It is one of life’s paradoxes that the worst circumstances can bring the best out of us. According to the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) studies performed by Robert Anda (2006) and his team at Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego, we will all experience four or more serious life stressors that may be traumatizing, and according to positive psychology research, most of us will grow from them.

What Do We Mean by Resilience?

Research on resilience used to view resilient qualities as residing exclusively within an individual. Today this research takes the more dynamic view of seeing resilience as an individual’s ability to mobilize supports within a social context. Wong and Wong (2012) write that “In the early days of resilience research, the focus was on ‘the invulnerable child,’ who did better than expected despite adversities and disadvantages . . . [D]evelopmental psychologists were interested in individual differences and the protective factors that contributed to the development of the invulnerable child”. Rutter, however, argues that “resilience may reside in the social context as much as within the individual” (Wong & Wong). “His concept of the ‘steeling’ effect highlights the essence of resilience — the more experience you have in overcoming adversities, the more resilient you will become” (Wong & Wong, 2012).

Wong and Wong propose that certain qualities of behavioral resilience can only be developed from the actual experience of having overcome adversities (Wong & Wong, 2012).

Additionally, they identify at least three prototypical patterns that resilient people appear to display, which may occur in different contexts for different individuals. These are developed as individuals meet life challenges; they are dynamic, constantly evolving qualities rather than qualities residing only within the individual.

Recovery: bouncing back and returning to normal functioning Invulnerability: remaining relatively unscathed by the adversity or trauma Posttraumatic growth: bouncing back and becoming stronger (Wong & Wong, 2012, p. 588). Our Deep Need to Connect: How Early Attachment Can Be Life Enhancing or Traumatizing Our highest and most evolved system, our social engagement system, is activated through our deep urge to communicate and cooperate. From the moment of birth, our mind-body reaches out toward our primary attachment figures to establish the kind of connection that will allow us to survive and find our footing in the world. We fall back on our more primitive systems of defense — such as fight, flight, or freeze — only when we fail to find a sense of resonance and safety in this connection (Porges, 2004).

The body of work that researchers Dan Siegel and Allan Schore have developed, which underlies interpersonal neurobiology, postulates that our skin does not define the boundaries of our beingness; from conception, we resonate in tune or out of tune with those around us (Schore, 1999). Through relational experiences that form and inform our sense of self and through our ability to be cared for and care about others, our capacity for empathy is formed and strengthened (Schore, 1999).

Neuroception, a term coined by Stephen Porges (2004), former Director of the Brain-Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, describes our innate ability to use intricate, meaning-laden, barely perceptible mind-body signals to establish bonds and communicate our needs and intentions. While many of these communications are conscious, still more occur beneath the level of our awareness in that animal-like part of us(Porges, 2004).

Neuroception is a system that has evolved over time to enable humans and mammals to establish the mutually nourishing bonds that we need to survive and thrive. It is also our personal security system that assesses, in the blink of an eye, whether or not the situations that we’re encountering are safe or in some way threatening (Porges, 2004). According to Porges (2004), our neuroception tells us if we can relax and be ourselves or if and when we need to self-protect. If the signals that we’re picking up from others are cold, dismissive, or threatening, that system sets off an inner alarm that is followed by a cascade of mind-body responses honed by eons of evolution to keep us from being harmed. That mind-body system sets off equivalent alerts if we’re facing the proverbial saber-toothed tiger or saber-toothed parent, older sibling, a school bully, or spouse. We brace for harm to our person on the inside as well as on the outside.

When Parents Turn Away

Trauma in the home has a lasting impact. When those we rely on for our basic needs of trust, empathy, and dependency become abusive or neglectful, it constitutes a double whammy. Not only are we being hurt and confused but the very people we’d go to for solace and explanation of what’s going on are the ones causing us pain. We stand scared and braced for danger in those moments, prepared by eons of evolution, ready to flee for safety or stand and fight. If we can do neither, if escape seems impossible because we are children growing up trapped by our own size and dependency within pain engendering families, then something inside of us freezes. Just getting through, just surviving the experience becomes paramount.

Relational trauma impacts all facets of the mind-body social engagement system including limbic resonance, touch, expression, gesture, sign language, and finally words. Consequently, ferreting out just what has hurt us can be a very layered process. A parent who wears a scowl all of the time, for example, and who we couldn’t reach with our attempts at connection or who begrudgingly reached for our hands and dragged us across a street or humiliated us for our small efforts share our feelings to take care of ourselves, can leave a legacy of hurt behind them.

In trauma engendering interactions, “people are not able to use their interactions to regulate their physiological states in relationship . . . they are not getting anything back from the other person that can help them to remain calm and regulated. Quite the opposite. The other person’s behavior is making them go into a scared, braced-for-danger state. Their physiology is being up regulated into a fight/flight mode,” says Porges A failure to successfully engage and create a sense of safety and cooperation or to communicate needs and desires to those people we depend upon for our very survival can be experienced as traumatic. This can set the groundwork for a life long problem with self-regulation.

When Children Withdraw Into Themselves

For small developing children, this refusal of connection can be traumatic if it occurs consistently over time. The child can feel that their needs are somehow incompressible if the parent does not tune into him or her. Small children have little recourse when they are young and dependent. If a parent does not support a comfortable connection, if the parent or caretaker is not available for a caring co-state in which communications on both sides are met with reciprocal attempts to understand and continue to participate in a mutually satisfying feedback loop, the child may feel very alone. They may retreat into their own little world or even dissociate. After all, why continue to try when you are getting nothing back? What about the child who is disciplined not according to their own behavior but by their parent’s mood and left unable to figure out how to act to stay out of trouble? Or how about the kid in a rage-filled home who is told to sit still and listen as the parent dumps a load of pain all over them? What recourse does this child have but to flee internally? When we dissociate, we do not process experiences normally. We do not feel it, think about it, or draw meaning from it.

How Early Relational Trauma Affects Our Relationships

People who have been traumatized in their intimate relationships can find it difficult simply to be in comfortable connection with others. The dependency and vulnerability that is so much a part of intimacy can trigger a person who has been traumatized in their early, intimate relationships into the defensive behaviors that they relied on as children to stay safe and to feel whole rather than splintered. To heal this form of relational trauma, we need to understand what defensive strategies we used to stay safe and then shift these behaviors to be more engaged and nourishing both within our relationships and ourselves. After all, if we constantly brace for danger and rejection, then we are likely to create it. It can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The Long-Term Impact of Parental Addiction

Experiences like growing up with parental addiction and the chaos and stress that surround it pop up over and over again as primary causes of toxic stress. Anda and his team were not looking for the effects of addiction in their research however it consistently emerged as an underlying factor in ACE’s. Not only are the effects of parental addiction devastating for children, but addiction is rarely a factor by itself, it is often surrounded by a cluster of other problems such as abuse and neglect. Alcohol and drugs are often used to mask depression and anxiety in the addict but rather than make depression or anxiety better; addiction makes them worse because the depression and anxiety remain undealt with and the addiction becomes a whole, new problem of its own. And being married to an addict creates pain in the partner which undermines their ability to be a present parent, so kids lose two parents. ACEs or adverse childhood experiences tend to cluster; once a home environment is disordered, the risk of witnessing or experiencing emotional, physical, or sexual abuse actually rises dramatically (Anda, et al., 2006).

During one of his lectures, Dr. Anda described why ongoing traumatic experiences such as growing up with addiction, abuse, or neglect in the home can have such tenacious effects: “For an epidemic of influenza, a hurricane, earthquake, or tornado, the worst is quickly over; treatment and recovery efforts can begin. In contrast, the chronic disaster that results from ACEs is insidious and constantly rolling out from generation to generation” (personal communication). If the effects of toxic stress are not understood so that children can receive some sort of understanding and support from home, school, and community, these children simply “vanish from view . . . and randomly reappear — as if they are new entities — in all of your service systems later in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood as clients with behavioral, learning, social, criminal, and chronic health problems” (Anda, et al., 2010).

Growing up is painful; families are only human after all. We will inevitably get hurt. But we need to repair that hurt in some way, and if repair doesn’t happen at or near to the moment of the pain, it will need to happen later. When emotional pain remains split off, it becomes somehow invisible to the naked eye, and it emerges as if it a whole new problem with whole new people. But we need to embrace the challenge as adults of understanding our own childhood ACE-related pain and cleaning up its effects so that it doesn’t become the pain pump for today’s problems.

The idea of growth through suffering or pain is not a new one. The systematic study of it is. Post-traumatic growth (PTG), a phrase coined by Drs. Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun — editors of The Handbook of Post Traumatic Growth — describes the positive self-transformation that people undergo through meeting challenges head-on. It refers to a profound, life-altering response to adversity that changes us on the inside as we actively summon the kinds of qualities like fortitude, forgiveness, gratitude, and strength that enable us to not only survive tough circumstances but also thrive. Facing childhood pain and dealing with it rather than acting it out or medicating is part of post-traumatic growth and part of how we create resilience today.

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Anda, R. F., V. J. Felitti, D. W. Brown, D. Chapman, M. Dong, S. R.Schore, A.N. (1999). Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self. Dan Siegel: The Neurological Basis of Behavior, the Mind, the Brain and Human Relationships Part 1 At the Garrison Institute’s 2011 Climate, Mind and Behavior Symposium, Dr. Dan Siegel of the …

NEUROCEPTION: A Subconscious System for Detecting Threats and Safety STEPHEN W. PORGES University of Illinois at Chicago Copyright 2004 ZERO TO THREE. Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.

Schore, A.N. (1991), Early superego development: The emergence of shame and narcissistic affect regulation in the practicing period. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 14: 187–250.

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Wong, P. T. P. & Wong, L. C. J. (2012). A meaning-centered approach to building youth resilience. In P. T. P. Wong (Ed.), The human quest for meaning: Theories, research, and applications (2nd ed., pp. 585–617). New York, NY: Routledge.

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loud-snoring-os · 7 years

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Fulfills my craving for integration of Scripture and neuroscience I've read Brene Brown and she has much wisdom. But after I read her, I was craving a solid integration of Scripture and theology with psychology and neuroscience on the subject of shame. Curt Thompson does that for me, and more. I finished reading The Soul of Shame this morning and immediately ordered 20 copies to give, sell, and loan at our church. Enough said. Curt personifies shame as lurking, lying, whispering, manipulating, hiding, doing its dastardly work to undermine the Holy Spirit. But there is hope for healing. My favorite chapter is 8, where the foundational principles apply to our primary biological and spiritual relationships. In Curt's words, "The process of being known in the context of our vulnerability within the church becomes one of the most powerful means of evangelism and healing." The book is not one to skim. Take your time to read it ponder it. I'll be gathering some fellow pastors to explore it together, as we did with his first book. Go to Amazon

Excellent Insights on the Power of Shame Curt Thompson's book, The Soul of Shame, helps readers reflect theologically on the unspoken topic that is in the air we breathe: shame. Thompson deals with shame on the personal level but also understands how it can affect structures and institutions. He posits that shame is the greatest tool of evil in the world to bring disintegration to self and disruption to relationships. Shame, according to Thompson, keeps us locked up emotionally, fuels addiction, alienates us from God and keeps us from being our best self. The pervasiveness of shame makes it hard to escape. We grow with shame from early childhood and have it constantly reinforced as we mature. Thompson's antidote to shame is vulnerability within community. Go to Amazon

One of the best reads of 2015 I cannot recommend The Soul of Shame highly enough. The author takes complex neuroscience, scripture and psychology and blends them together in an easy to understand narrative. His insights into shame brought new meanings to the Genesis story of Adam and Eve that make sense to us today in ways that I had not considered. It seems that, since shame is so pervasive and deeply embedded within us that we take it as something that is normal and simply to be tolerated, or even enhanced. It is not, but he also offers the cure! We can change our stories and drain away the toxicity of shame-based beliefs and behaviors. Go to Amazon

Brene Brown Christified If you've read Brene, you know that everything she write or says is worthwhile. Add to her work some brain research and the backdrop of the Story of Scripture, and you get The Soul of Shame. Well written, insightful, Biblical, and practical, Curt Thompson has given us a book that any group would benefit from. Potentially transformative stuff (if practiced!). Go to Amazon

Excellent sophomore release My friend Curt Thompson's sophomore release, The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves (IVP, 2015) does not disappoint. He is a Christian psychiatrist deeply influenced by the field of interpersonal neurobiology and particularly the work of Dan Siegel. Go to Amazon

Three Stars Not the greatest flow to his writing. More examples would have helped. Go to Amazon

Best book of shame I have read Great book on the subject of personal shame. Written by a Christian psychiatrist who blends the right about of scientific medical information and spiritual information. Not preachy, but also does not shy away from the discussing the influence of unseen spiritual forces that accuse and condemn, and these forces impact shame. I normally don't read books more than once, but I've already read it twice and continue to think about what was written. Go to Amazon

A Must Read This should be read - probably twice - as I've shared the content with others they are struck by the importance for their lives and work. Thompson's description of how shame functions in human lives and the life of society makes me stop and think over and over again. Imagine being told that you're good enough, that you are beloved, that you can engage with your vulnerabilities and stand with grace and humility and a solid understanding of who you are without shame. Yes, this is a book about shame and how it works and how we can stand against it's relationship destroying ways. There's a lot more to be said, but nothing as important as recommending that you read the book and have a writing instrument ready to underline and write notes. Powerful! Timely! Go to Amazon

thus destroying ties to the very thing that we want and need most - love, approval and lasting fulfillment Be forewarned! Shame Communicated Well Great & Annoying- It's very enlightening but sadly enforces his religious ideology An Intellectual treatise A great resource to normalize shame as well as provide background ... Thompson creatively ties biblical truth, spiritual transformation, and ... VERY DIFFICULT READ - UNIVERSITY STYLE OF WRITING ... opening to what drives us and the ones we love Awesome

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How Yoga Helped Me Overcome Addiction and Aid Other At-Risk Teens

When I started using drugs and also alcohol as a teenager, I was looking for alleviation from anxiety as well as depression. I was searching for people who understood who I was as well as what I was undergoing. As well as, though I would not have actually placed it right into those words, I was seeking a connection to a pressure more than myself-to spirit, mankind, deep space. Whatever you wish to call it, you recognize it when you feel it, even at that age.

At initially, I located all that in medicines and alcohol. It was an escape from the pressure as well as the tension, from the assumptions of belonging to a high-achieving, blessed family. To some degree, due to the fact that it connected me with others who were running away in the very same method, it produced a feeling of neighborhood and shared routine. And also, particularly when I made use of hallucinogens, it often offered me a short lived feeling of connection with something bigger.

But, of training course, the a lot more drugs I did, the less it assisted, and also the clinical depression and also anxiety returned even worse than previously. I remained in and out of 3 therapy centers before one finally stuck. At the fourth therapy facility I checked into, at age 24, I was introduced to yoga exercise and reflection, as component of an alternative method that incorporated mind, body, as well as spirit. This time around, it worked-and I understand that the spiritual component of the program was a significant part of why it made the difference for me. Exactly what I discovered in yoga exercise and meditation was what I was looking for in medications as well as alcohol-a sensation of coming from a greater objective, a sense of neighborhood, remedy for the continuous concentrate on the self, a way to allow go of stress as well as assumptions by discovering how to be in today moment. And, with yoga exercise, there's an advancing positive effect-the more you do, the much better you feel-and those appropriate feelings are lasting. There's no hangover with yoga.

The spiritual element important abuse treatment is sorely overlooked in a lot of programs, so when I established the Newport Academy therapy programs for teenagers, I understood from the start that yoga and reflection were mosting likely to be a core element of our method, together with scientific as well as experiential restorative methods. These techniques are especially effective for young individuals because they have the potential to straight impact their still-developing minds as well as nervous systems. The conscious practices of yoga exercise and also meditation develop the parts of the brain that manage impulse control as well as exactly how we respond to stress as well as tough emotions and also scenarios. That understanding is particularly substantial in relation to teens, whose brains are still establishing even in late adolescence, according to specialists such as Dan Siegel, M.D., whose publication Brainstorm: The Power and also Objective of the Adolescent Brain checks out just how brain growth influences teens' habits as well as relationships.

' Mindfulness silences down the limbic system'- which is concentrated on impulses and primitive drives, and thus militarizes risk-taking actions-' and also buffers the prefrontal cortex, which is associated with making choices and also controling emotions,' says Angela Wilson, LMHC, who teaches evidence-based yoga strategies in healing places and also was a staff member for a 2014 research study on yoga exercise and self-regulation. Learning how to dispassionately see exactly how we act as well as react on the mat likewise strengthens what Wilson calls the 'observing ego,' the ability to observe and endure our emotions-or, as she places it, to develop 'even more room in between having our sensations and acting upon them.'

On a totally physical degree, yoga exercise technique on the mat improves physical fitness, strengthens the breathing system, and also allows us to create mastery over what their bodies can do. However it's not just our bodies that feel much better. 'When the body ends up being much healthier, we experience a higher sense of health,' states yoga researcher Sat Bir S. Khalsa, Ph.D., an assistant teacher of medicine at Harvard Medical Institution, that lately looked after a study on yoga as well as teen drug usage funded by the National Institute on Substance abuse. That body-mind link isn't completely recognized, however it has actually been significantly confirmed by studies like one at Penn State in which students who were even more physically active reported higher degrees of exhilaration and enthusiasm.

The power of yoga-and yogic breathing techniques, or pranayama, in particular-to calm the anxious system was one of the very first advantages I experienced. Its efficiency in this location for teens has actually been repetitively confirmed in qualitative studies with individuals who report that they use mindful breathing to relax prior to examinations, to cool down when they're mad, and also to help them rest. These are straightforward, easily instructed interventions that could have an extensive impact in their ability to lower the tension response-essential because 'anxiety is a major threat aspect for disease, including addiction,' claims Khalsa. 'Every physical as well as psychological problem has anxiety as an element.'

Beyond these neurobiological benefits, yoga exercise is a profound way to construct neighborhood and also link, which was among its crucial aspects for me. For teenagers, being together in an environment concentrated on acceptance of self and others-rather compared to one of competitors and judgment-can be incredibly powerful. 'The common encounter is extremely important to the process of healing,' says Wilson. Additionally, she says, decreasing the stress feedback in the body and also mind cultivates a better capacity for attunement, compassion, and link with parents, peers, as well as teachers. 'Connection with others is essential in aiding to reorganize one's mind in a healthy and balanced and also positive method,' states Wilson. 'What's happening in between two brains has the potential to transform brain structure and also improve consciousness.'

Yoga also fosters growth of mind-body awareness. The practice of intentionally integrating breath as well as activity brings about further understanding of our interior state, which translates off the floor covering right into a capacity to listen and respond to the messages the body sends out. 'You begin to gravitate far from tasks that don't feel great as well as toward tasks that feel good-which could make substantial modifications in staying clear of risk aspects,' Khalsa claims. When we tune in to exactly how our choices influence us at every level-physical, mental, emotional-we come to be very likely to make decisions that will certainly profit us, as well as much less inclined to mask underlying concerns with destructive behaviors.

If I would certainly had this practice offered to me at a young age, my life may have been really different. I'm unbelievably grateful to have actually uncovered it, to have actually discovered my back, and to be able to share these experiment others.

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che-ck-your-self · 7 years

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For that I recommend the audio CDs by Dr Very technical and not for lay readers, but very illuminating. Several of the chapters were life-changing for me, something I have been searching for for fifty years. Anyone with low self-esteem issues would benefit from the "core shame" chapter, if you can fathom the neuroscience. For that I recommend the audio CDs by Dr. Dan Siegel: "The Neurobiology of We". Go to Amazon

Cozolino's work - still as well written and easy to read as its 2006 predecessor This is the 2014 version of Dr. Cozolino's work - still as well written and easy to read as its 2006 predecessor. The big difference is more data driven material and up to date neuroscience and neurobiology. So how he was able to improve on it. This is an excellent read for graduate students and anyone who wants to have a thorough understanding of why we think therapy works and why people do what they do. Go to Amazon

Really a one-of-a-kind book The Neuroscience of Human Relationships is an in-depth book that sends a reader into the world of interpersonal neurobiology. Cozolino does an amazing job a huge amount of facts and even some well-founded theories to explain the ways people connect and the underlying "mechanics" of the brain that allow for successful connection. The book goes into great detail and connects ideas for a very solid experience of the information. The examples integrated throughout the text helped to provide an understanding and an application for a subject, a chance to see it in action. Some of the stories were touching, and all of them helped me to develop an understanding of what I was reading. I got the Kindle version, and it was very helpful to highlight important sections and to write down my thoughts on any given part. The writing style was engaging and kept me coming back to the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in human psychology. Not only do you learn about psychology, you also learn about the neuroscience behind it and how the two subjects are really connected, an apparently new revelation. Go to Amazon

Gaze+Blushing+Pupils+Face+Touch+Tone = Social Synapse This book is absolutely Brilliant! Cozolino presents the social brain and the "social synapse". Quote #1: Go to Amazon

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Four Stars Five Stars Five Stars Great Book! Four Stars Five Stars A book that gets to the core of what it means to be human Reading and listening experience ruined by constant embedded references. Fascinating Five Stars

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Acclaimed Author Dr. Dan Siegel In Jackson

St. John’s Medical Center Words on Wellness Speaker Series brings acclaimed author and interpersonal neurobiology pioneer Dan Siegel, MD, to the Center for the Arts on Thursday, October 26 at 7 pm. Dr. Siegel will speak on “How our Relationships Shape Us.” His presentation will be followed by a question and answer session. The event…

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Somatic Psychotherapy in Campbell, CA

“Long-lasting responses to trauma result not simply from the experience of fear and helplessness but from how our bodies interpret those experiences.”

~Rachel Yehuda

Talking about trauma doesn’t make it go away.

If you have been told that, you were sold a bill of goods.

Somatic psychotherapy is grounded in neuroscience, how the body stores memories, and how to release the pain of those memories.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

~Dr. Dan Siegel, award-winning educator, researcher and author

Great Books on Mind-Body Approaches:

Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body, Reginald Ray

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter Levine

The Body Remembers, Babette Rothschild

Articles on Somatic Psychotherapy in Trauma Treatment

“Putting the Pieces Together: 25 Years of Learning Trauma Treatment” | Download PDF Published in Psychotherapy Networker, May/June 2014.

“Clinical EFT as an Evidence-Based Practice for the Treatment of Psychological and physiological Conditions” | Download PDF

“Sensorimotor Approaches to Trauma Treatment” | Download PDF Published in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, July 2011.

“Attachment as a Sensorimotor Experience” | Download PDF Published in Attachement: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, July, 2011.

“Retraining the Brain: Harnessing Our Neuralplasticity” | Download PDF Published in the Psychotherapy Networker, March, 2011.

“Brain to Brain: The Therapist as Neurobiological Regulator” | Download PDF Published in the Psychotherapy Networker, January, 2010.

“Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma” | Download PDF

“Addictions and Trauma Recovery” | Download PDF

“Stabilization in the Treatment of Trauma” | Download PDF

“Self-harm and Suicidality” | Download PDF

“Dissociative Phenomena in the Everyday Lives of Trauma Survivors” | Download PDF

To learn more about Somatic Psychotherapy, click here.

#Somatic Psychotherapy #Mental Health Counseling #Mental Health Support #Bay Area Mental Health

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bayareamentalhealth-blog · 5 years

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Somatic Psychotherapy near Bay Area

“Long-lasting responses to trauma result not simply from the experience of fear and helplessness but from how our bodies interpret those experiences.”

~Rachel Yehuda

Talking about trauma doesn’t make it go away.

If you have been told that, you were sold a bill of goods.

Bodily maps of emotions by L. Nummenmaa, E. Glerean, R. Hari, J. Hietanen, published in PNAS

Somatic psychotherapy is grounded in neuroscience, how the body stores memories, and how to release the pain of those memories.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

~Dr. Dan Siegel, award-winning educator, researcher and author

Great Books on Mind-Body Approaches:

Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body, Reginald Ray

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter Levine

The Body Remembers, Babette Rothschild

Articles on Somatic Psychotherapy in Trauma Treatment

“Putting the Pieces Together: 25 Years of Learning Trauma Treatment” | Download PDF Published in Psychotherapy Networker, May/June 2014.

“Clinical EFT as an Evidence-Based Practice for the Treatment of Psychological and physiological Conditions” | Download PDF

“Sensorimotor Approaches to Trauma Treatment” | Download PDF Published in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, July 2011.

“Attachment as a Sensorimotor Experience” | Download PDF Published in Attachement: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, July, 2011.

“Retraining the Brain: Harnessing Our Neuralplasticity” | Download PDF Published in the Psychotherapy Networker, March, 2011.

“Brain to Brain: The Therapist as Neurobiological Regulator” | Download PDF Published in the Psychotherapy Networker, January, 2010.

“Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma” | Download PDF

“Addictions and Trauma Recovery” | Download PDF

“Stabilization in the Treatment of Trauma” | Download PDF

“Self-harm and Suicidality” | Download PDF

“Dissociative Phenomena in the Everyday Lives of Trauma Survivors” | Download PDF

To learn more, click here.

#Somatic Psychotherapy #Mental Health Counseling #Mental Health Support #Teen Therapy #Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

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Somatic Psychotherapy in Campbell, CA

“Long-lasting responses to trauma result not simply from the experience of fear and helplessness but from how our bodies interpret those experiences.” ~Rachel Yehuda

Talking about trauma doesn’t make it go away.

If you have been told that, you were sold a bill of goods.

Somatic psychotherapy is grounded in neuroscience, how the body stores memories, and how to release the pain of those memories.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Great Books on Mind-Body Approaches:

Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body, Reginald Ray

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter Levine

The Body Remembers, Babette Rothschild

Articles on Somatic Psychotherapy in Trauma Treatment

“Putting the Pieces Together: 25 Years of Learning Trauma Treatment” | Download PDF Published in Psychotherapy Networker, May/June 2014.

“Clinical EFT as an Evidence-Based Practice for the Treatment of Psychological and physiological Conditions” | Download PDF

“Sensorimotor Approaches to Trauma Treatment” | Download PDF Published in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, July 2011.

“Attachment as a Sensorimotor Experience” | Download PDF Published in Attachement: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, July, 2011.

“Retraining the Brain: Harnessing Our Neuralplasticity” | Download PDF Published in the Psychotherapy Networker, March, 2011.

“Brain to Brain: The Therapist as Neurobiological Regulator” | Download PDF Published in the Psychotherapy Networker, January, 2010.

“Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma” | Download PDF

“Addictions and Trauma Recovery” | Download PDF

“Stabilization in the Treatment of Trauma” | Download PDF

“Self-harm and Suicidality” | Download PDF

“Dissociative Phenomena in the Everyday Lives of Trauma Survivors” | Download PDF

To learn more about Somatic Psychotherapy, click here.

#Somatic Psychotherapy #Sensorimotor Psychotherapy #Mental Health Counseling #Mental Health Support

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good brian mapping It has a good and detailed mapping of the cerebral areas connected to the emotional world of different kinds of attachment. Go to Amazon

It's an easy to read book absolutely helpful not only for professionals ... It's an easy to read book absolutely helpful not only for professionals but also for the general audience. A pleasure! Go to Amazon

A book that gets to the core of what it means to be human This is one of the most useful books I have read recently. Although the subject is technical the author write by a standard of understanding context. To me this subject matter is fundamental. If every living person understood the material in this book poverty and all anti-social behaviors would cease to exist. Since that is far from the case in this lifetime the book adds the powers of empathy. My hope is that people who read this will become empathetic to leaders of all kinds and to see them as every other human being trying to continue their epic journey full of mistakes and imperfections. It is only by understanding how the brain works that all humans truly become equal and economic and social barriers fall. Go to Amazon

Five Stars I kept the book. It was well worth the time and price. Go to Amazon

Great Book! Great book. Arrived as advertised. Fast delivery. Go to Amazon

Four Stars Five Stars Four Stars Five Stars Reading and listening experience ruined by constant embedded references. Fascinating Five Stars

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