Trauma Spirit
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What is Trauma Spirit?
Stuck in Trauma Spirit
Thriving Beyond Trauma Spirit
Stuck in Trauma Spirit
When we are experiencing Trauma Spirit we feel a chronic state of confusion, a significant loss in meaning in one self, humanity or a loss of faith. It is common to also feel a loss of time or feel not our age.
Healing Trauma Spirit
Thriving Beyond Trauma Spirit
Stuck in Trauma Spirit
Experiencing a sense of Self through mindfulness practices, existential healing, understanding our different aspects of self, and deep brain healing, such as when we connect to our own healing intelligence, we can heal. This process is often facilitated by approaches called Internal Family Systems and Brainspotting. We can find clarity, integration and profound healing.
Thriving Beyond Trauma Spirit
Thriving Beyond Trauma Spirit
Thriving Beyond Trauma Spirit
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Discover the Trauma Spirit
Do I Have Trauma Spirit?
Treatment Recommendations
Do I Have Trauma Spirit?
The trauma-type questionnaire on this website will help you determine if you have trauma-spirit. Understanding whether you are identified with it or not is essential to your healing path. When we are identified with Trauma Spirit we feel so confused and lost that it is hard to imagine a sense of Self at all. When we are not-identified, we
The trauma-type questionnaire on this website will help you determine if you have trauma-spirit. Understanding whether you are identified with it or not is essential to your healing path. When we are identified with Trauma Spirit we feel so confused and lost that it is hard to imagine a sense of Self at all. When we are not-identified, we have feel young, lose a sense of time, or loss of faith, but we have moments or memories when we feel our age, clarity and faith.
Self-Healing
Treatment Recommendations
Do I Have Trauma Spirit?
It is not uncommon to feel lost and confused after severe trauma or chronic abuse. Bringing mindful awareness to our thoughts, beliefs but also our different parts inside us (The clouds) helps us return to our Self (the sun). Healing is very much possible, and when we can not use our minds to help us heal, we can use our brains through Brainspotting to bring coherence to our system again.
Treatment Recommendations
Treatment Recommendations
Treatment Recommendations
It is extremely common that with Trauma-Spirit we need guidance on our path to healing. This guide respects your inner healing intelligence and can help us identify protectors in our system, or reflex spots in out central nercous system that hold traumas that need to get processed and discharged to bring deeper healing to our life. An Int
It is extremely common that with Trauma-Spirit we need guidance on our path to healing. This guide respects your inner healing intelligence and can help us identify protectors in our system, or reflex spots in out central nercous system that hold traumas that need to get processed and discharged to bring deeper healing to our life. An Internal Family Systems and Brainspotting clinician are likley the most beneficial for you on your healing journey.
Self Healing Exercises for Healing Trauma Spirit
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a form of talk therapy created by Richard Swartz (Swartz, 2001). In his work as a family therapist, he recognized that the family systems approach, which views change in terms of the interactions between family members, also had an internal psychological component, that each of us has sub-personalities that take on different roles, such as an inner critic. When situations elicit discordant feelings, IFS may be useful.
Befriend a Part
Exercise: Befriend a Part
• Recall a recent situation where you reacted stronger than the situation warranted.
• Try to visualize this reaction as a person sitting next to you. If you cannot see it, how does it feel in or around you?
• How old is this part, chronologically, how old does this part feel?
• What are its (her/his/their) fears and concerns? (Why did it react the way it did?)
• How are you feeling towards the part? (not about the part)
• What does it want you to know about it, or how it came to be?
• What role does it play in your life? How does it protect you?
• Now ask it if it would be ok to step back a little bit. If the answer is no, no problem, thank it for doing its job in protecting you and let it know you are doing some self-growth work so it does not have to take over so much anymore.
Brainspotting was developed by David Grand (Grand, 2013). Very simply, Grand found after much practice with EMDR and Somatic Experiencing, that where we look affects how we feel. We can either process something activating or resource something that is more positive based on where we look. Brainspotting is a sub-cortical process that is highly effective for Trauma Spirit.
Self-spotting:
Exercise-Self Spotting:
- Find the eye position that helps you feel you can ask this part (in previous slide) to give you some space.
- Look left, center and right on the horizon for at least 5 seconds each and see which spot feels the most connected to one self (more calm, grounded or neutral) and able to get some space from the part (discordant feeling).
- Stay on the spot for as long as possible. Stay until you start to feel more grounded, centered, calm or neutral.
Practice this every day. If possible, add on bilateral music while you are looking at the spot. - With practice, you can identify the spot that holds the activation, and then the most grounded/calm/neutral spot, and move back and forth between them. (Working with a Brainspotting clinician is recommended at this stage, especially to find reflex spots you may not be aware of).
Moving Beyond Trauma Spirit
The Thriving Self: A New Paradigm for Healing Trauma in the Mind, Body and Spirit and Moving Beyond
• Redefines the healing of trauma by providing the missing link between the experience of trauma and the appropriate method of treatment by understanding the three ways individuals store or locate trauma: in the mind, body and spirit.
• Case studies illustrate these three orientations, this book walks readers through the steps of identifying which of the three is relevant to the individual, followed by common roadblocks to treatment (and understanding treatment readiness) and finally, recommendations for treatments.
• Distinguishes between EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting to name a few and when each are useful based on which Trauma-Type and phase of healing an individual is in.
• A Trauma-Type self test helps the individual identify whether one has Trauma Mind, Trauma Body or Trauma Spirit or a combination of them.
• Extends trauma therapy – beyond relief of symptoms to a thriving life by identifying one’s core wounds, survival override, and the life choices one may make that serves primarily to keep a core wound alive.
• Worksheets and guided reflections help one identify the core wounds and how to move beyond them to a new coherent self, integrated from of a traumatic past, to help one thrive.
• Complete guide to all the healing paths to recover from trauma and everyday suffering.
Book: The Thriving Self
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