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Finding the Source of Stress and Trauma
How You Can Pinpoint the Causes of Stress in Your Life and Eliminate Them. Quite often, we think stress comes from what is going on around us. But more often than not, current feelings of stress are the same feelings … Continue reading
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Depression and Trauma and PTSD
We all feel blue or sad at times, but these feelings usually pass within a few days. But depression lasts weeks or months and should be taken seriously. Most people need treatment in order to get better. According to the … Continue reading
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Secondary Trauma and PTSD from 9/11
Studies detail Secondary Trauma and PTSD in those who witnessed 9/11. In an article from the Los Angeles Times, Melissa Healy writes about the Trauma and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) in those who were not directly involved in the violence … 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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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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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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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
In Peter Levine’s book on Somatic Experiencing, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, we are asked to understand our traumas in terms of our basic animal natures. He postulates that trauma is the body’s response to what may be, or appear … Continue reading
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Pronking, Trauma, and Soaring Again
Pronking is a behavior seen in nature, where an animal will repeatedly jump high and bound around as if in joy or ecstasy. There is such energy and enthusiasm in its leaps, it almost seems to be trying to leap … Continue reading
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