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What Stress Does in the Body
How Stress and Trauma Cause Autoimmune Illnesses Book Review: The Missing “First Domino” In Autoimmune Conditions: Nervous System Dysregulation This eBook by Dr. Lori A. Parker is an excellent resource for understanding how the body reacts to stress. She uses … Continue reading
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Beyond Sandy Hook: How Somatic Experiencing Can Help Us Heal
What Happens During Trauma? This follow blog was sent to me by THE SETI STAFF on FEBRUARY 12, 2013. I was given permission to share it with you below. The horrific events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, … Continue reading
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Dr. Bob Scaer on the Nature of Trauma
In this excellent 46-minute video, Twig Wheeler interviews the neurologist Dr. Bob Scaer about just what trauma and PTSD is and how it affects one’s body and life. This is discussed in a way that is easily understandable and concise. … Continue reading
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Trauma in Individuals and Families
A Model of Trauma . . . and how it applies to the individual and families. The mechanisms of trauma and PTSD have been detailed over the past 30 years with the improvements in neural imaging. Less, however, is known … Continue reading
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Sleep, PTSD, and Trauma
The Effects of Trauma and PTSD on Sleep— and what to do about it–is the focus of the following article from the National Center for PTSD. Sleeplessness is one symptom of trauma and PTSD. Although the article gives good suggestions … Continue reading
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How the Brain Creates Trauma and PTSD
Trauma is a Threat to Life in a State of Helplessness Trauma is a real or a perceived life threat in a state of helplessness. This triggers a series of message systems in the limbic or mammalian brain that allow … Continue reading
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Help Healing PTSD with Somatic Experiencing and Mindfulness
Somatic Experiencing, which was developed by Peter Levine, can vanquish PTSD symptoms such as depression, nightmares, panic attacks, aggressive outbursts, and hyperarousal. The primary way of doing this is by increasing the ability of sufferers to track their body sensations, … Continue reading
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Genetic Trauma
The Holocaust never really ended. Its damage and ongoing effects march forward even as the population of survivors dwindles with time. Its impact continues to be felt not just by the victims , but by their children too. Psychologists have … Continue reading
Trauma and Memory
We humans have two very different forms of memory. One is conscious and what we would consider as normal memories–stories and historical recollections that seem to be arranged sequentially in time. This is called explicit memory. The other form is … Continue reading
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Helping Vicitims of Combat Trauma
Only those who survive combat truly know and understand the impact it has on a military service member’s life and family. It’s the natural, overwhelming instinct to survive that stays in the body and images of mutilated bodies that often … Continue reading
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