Understanding Traumatized Nervous Systems
Bodies Can be Triggering
Inside Can be Triggering
Noticing Can be Triggering
Calming or Slowing Down Can be Triggering
Paying Attention to the Body Before an Audience Can be Triggering
Performance Anxiety Related to All of This Can be Triggering
Resistance Not a Useful Concept
Dip Your Toe In Provides Needed InformationBeware Agendas
Beware Informing Clients What the Should Feel or What Mindfulness Will Do
Therapist Agendas: Back to How we Teach Mindfulness, and the Cinderblock on the Gas Pedal
Many Clients with Complex Trauma Believe that they have Failed Trauma (and are about to Fail EMDR Therapy)
Aspirin for a Headache Metaphor