Active Pause

Alice Ladas reflects on the drive and energy that has fueled her professional activities and her zest for life.

Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, is the author of five books, all published by WW Norton:

– The Body Remembers–The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (2000) (bestseller)

– The Body Remembers CASEBOOK–Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD (2003)

– Help for the Helper–The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma (2006)

– 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery (2010)  (bestseller)

– Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide. (2011)

She has been a psychotherapist and body psychotherapist since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark, she returned to her native Los Angeles. There she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, and supervise psychotherapists, body psychotherapists, and psychologists worldwide. See: SomaticTraumaTherapy.com.

December 2011. See: Printable PDF transcript. For other conversation with Babette Rothschild, see Alphabetical List.

Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, is the author of five books, all published by WW Norton:

– The Body Remembers–The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (2000) (bestseller)

– The Body Remembers CASEBOOK–Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD (2003)

– Help for the Helper–The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma (2006)

– 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery (2010)  (bestseller)

– Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide. (2011)

She has been a psychotherapist and body psychotherapist since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark, she returned to her native Los Angeles. There she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, and supervise psychotherapists, body psychotherapists, and psychologists worldwide. See: SomaticTraumaTherapy.com.

December 2011. See: Printable PDF transcript.

Anthony “Twig” Wheeler is a Cultural Animator and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner/Consultant from Washington state. His background includes extensive study in human ecology, social change theory and the healing arts. Twig has assisted extensively in the SE trainings helping graduate hundreds of SE practitioners. He offers sessions and consultations at all levels of the SE training.

Twig focuses on the translation and outreach of SE principles and guidelines worldwide. He has consulted in war affected communities in DR Congo, crisis clinics and violence prevention programs in the US and with helping professionals on four continents. In 2011 Twig produced an autobiographical “One-Man Show” titled Stories of Completion detailing his personal transformation out of PTSD with the aid of Somatic Experiencing. His website LiberationIsPossible.org showcases his various projects including his SE Reflections blog specifically designed for SE oriented practitioners. Twig is dedicated to wholeness and liberation: his, yours and others’.

Published November 2011.

Stephen Porges explains the polyvagal theory.

Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry and the director of the Brain-Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a former president of the Society for Psychological Research and also the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences.  He is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award.  He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, space medicine, and substance abuse.   His research has been cited in several thousand peer-reviewed articles and has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1975. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behavior.  The Polyvagal Theory provides a theoretical perspective to study and to treat stress and trauma. See: StephenPorges.com.

November 2011. See: Printable PDF transcript. 

See other conversation with Stephen Porges about mindfulness & co-regulation.

Note: A reprint of this interview constitutes Chapter 7 of a recent book by Stephen Porges, The Pocket Guide to The Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe.