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 [...]
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, [...]