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 [...]