The Centre for Healing Blog
We often talk about Safety as an essential quality when it comes to healing trauma, but as with all language and wording people have their own presuppositions and perspectives on the word.
We may as...
There are many questions that arise when it comes to Somatic/Trauma Therapy.
Matt & Ryan first lay the foundations of this work then here's a taste of what is covered:
- How does healing actually occu ...
The science behind the nervous system has evolved in recent years due to the studies of Stephen Porges and polyvagal theory.
This discovery has given us deeper insights into the nature of trauma as ...
Embodied Processing is the Bottom Up Approach to Healing Trauma & Nervous System Dysregulation
It is a Somatic Therapy based on a combination of ancient wisdom & the latest neuroscience in the field ...
Addiction.
In spiritual circles you might hear addiction described as a loss of the Self or Soul.
People often say the addictive behaviour is an attempt to get Home, a longing to experience their true...
3 Myths about Trauma
1 - Trauma is what happens to us
We classically think of trauma as a certain event, sexual abuse, veteran at war, car crash.
Trauma is actually what happens INSIDE of us as a res...
Fight / Flight / Freeze / Fawn
I'm sure you've heard of these nervous system states at some point.
In the above video we talk about what that actually looks like inside the branches of the Autonomic N...
Orphaned Part = Split off part of one's Psyche & Being
Created during a time of extreme distress.
The Nervous System perceives threat and the 'threat response' never finds full completion.
The Orphan...
