Trauma Relief
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Why Do We Become Ungrounded?
We learn to disassociate… and it is also instinctual. For better or worse, we learn “coping” mechanisms from Mom and Dad and other early caregivers. Our primitive brain instinctually dissasociates us both in the freeze response and whenever pain or injury would keep us from fighting or fleeing. Energy Tapping (EFT) can certainly help! Tapping…
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Flight, Fight, or Freeze
In the Trauma and the Primitive Brain video, we talk about Flight, Fight, and Freeze responses. Let’s go into a bit more detail here. Say you are a 5-year-old kid on the playground swinging. You’re enjoying the day and the warm breeze. You are all alone, lost in your own daydreams. Suddenly, the 8-year-old school…
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Guilt and Shame
When we feel guilty and shameful, releasing feelings of sadness, anger and pain has an added component. We often believe at SOME level that we deserve those feelings. Once we know that it’s ok to let them go, we can process these emotions without resistance, and move to a more connected state of being.
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Boundaries: Yours, Mine, and Ours
A lot of us never learned boundaries growing up. Even if we did, managing them with ease and grace is not always natural. We help you define what is yours to decide on and show you ways to stand up for that. And we delve into some of the grey areas that occur when we…
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I Just Don’t Want To Feel This
– Intense feelings can be overwhelming and scary – Many of us don’t have good coping skills for “negative” emotions, especially when they are intense – Just being with it, and accepting ourselves can be powerful. Sometimes challenging – If you are having trouble, what judgement or thoughts are underlying this?
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Procrastination
– Fear/Deserving/Identity – Boundaries – Inner Guidance – Old Associations – Ripeness and Babysteps – Not speaking up for self – They’ll just as for more, and I’ll have to do it over again anyway
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Smoking With Shame: Finding the Need Under the Habit
We believe that smoking, like other addictions, is a symptom of underlying fears and blocks. Treating the symptom does not “cure” the problem. Unless someone is doing something immediately life-threatening (say taking heroine or crack), for us, it is not about quitting first. That would be rather like pulling a life raft away from a…