Stanley Rosenberg on Self-Help and Healing Using the Power of the Vagus Nerve Stanley Rosenberg addresses the rising complexity that is all around us: in our profession, our personal lives and societies as a whole. It’s not just that life is changing faster or that old systems are breaking down. [...]
Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation Trauma-Related Dissociation. How many times have we worked with clients who begin to realize that feeling “good” can be terrifying? There is a risk in therapy that trying to promote experiences to “feel good” may backfire, as certain clients associate it with traumatizing events. Trauma activates primitive [...]
Combining Solutions For Complex Pain Syndromes Pain treatment is now considered to be the most demanding health epidemic in the United States, surpassing heart disease, cancer and other medical problems. Even the U.S. government has declared the opioid crisis a national public health emergency (without additional funding for it). Medical [...]
Lifting the Burden of Emotional Pain and Suffering We seem to be in a period of great turmoil, of uncertainty and violence both natural and manmade. Your clients may be reaching out to you in different ways, as world events cause feelings of anxiety, rage and sadness. This is a time [...]
Living Life Beyond Pain, Part 2 Watching the media this week, I saw highlighted our society’s paradox in the pursuit of relief from chronic pain. On the one hand, we see nearly daily media stories on the opioid epidemic; on the other, commercial products continuously promise for “fast relief” for [...]
Living Life Beyond Pain, Part 1 Living Life Beyond Pain - September is National Pain Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness about the prevalence of pain and the treatment options available. Many of us see clients with chronic pain struggling to find appropriate resources that may help them regain their [...]
Working with Body Intelligence (BQ) and Self Attunement Have you heard the term Body Intelligence or BQ? Most people are familiar with IQ; it’s a standard way of rating one’s reasoning intelligence compared to others. And as professionals, we may work with clients around issues of EQ or Emotional Intelligence, [...]
Leveraging the Power of Somatic Wisdom Techniques Our bodies carry an innate understanding and awareness, something we can refer to as somatic wisdom. Traditional psychology has long emphasized “talk therapy” using cognitive and verbal processes as the primary treatment for distress and disregulation. But as you may have discovered in [...]
Therapeutic Tools: The Polyvagal Solution Neuroscience Reaffirms Ancient Traditions As trauma therapists studying the Polyvagal Solution, we regularly observe how emotion, thought and physiology are not separate systems. Over the centuries, ancient practices have focused on techniques to link body and mind. Now Western science is pinpointing the precise neural mechanism: the vagal [...]