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In my reading about Trauma and our responses to it, I’ve been drawn to noticing the fawn response, which is not talked about so much as...

Here’s a piece explaining Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) which can be used to help with a range of symptoms...

“In order for a child to become kind, giving and empathetic, he needs to be treated that way…A child raised with love wants to make those...

“The inability to receive support from others is a trauma response. Your “I don’t need anyone, I’ll just do it myself” conditioning is a...

I had a lovely reminder a few weeks ago of the importance of enabling clients to bring their whole self into the therapy room. It’s...

“What if the symptoms of my illness are trying to heal me?” Marion Woodman We have a saying in neuro-linguistic programming that ‘all...

Sometimes there are no words. Awful things happen to those we love and we simply do not know what to do or say. This can be a very...

Today I want to talk about dissociation, and ways of supporting yourself in coming back into connection when you feel you have detached....

"We all need freedom and security, which is why when the world doesn’t feel safe, we often don’t feel as free." Esther Perel At first...

Sometimes life circumstances become very difficult in a way that is not going to quickly resolve itself. I'm thinking of situations like...

I wanted to reflect today on the nature of feeling, which is understandably a recurrent and important theme in therapeutic work. It’s a...

The difference between Trauma and Developmental Trauma is one that I often find myself explaining to clients. We can be traumatized by a...

My weekend poem this week is called The Abyss. I wrote it in 2011. It speaks of trauma, of the fragmentation inside that happens when...

In my reading lately about Trauma and our responses to it, I’ve been drawn to noticing the fawn response, which is not talked about so...

“Trauma represents a profound compression of “survival” energy, energy that has not been able to complete its meaningful course of...

When we think of being in danger, the fight/flight response is perhaps the response that most readily comes to mind. Our sympathetic...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and trauma responses, are often thought of as being dramatic and invasive. We most often think of people...

I first consciously came across the phenomenon of my body moving without my deliberate control when I trained in Neuro-Linguistic...

When we are traumatised, it is usual to believe we are damaged, broken, and even beyond repair. Ana Gomez has a lovely re-frame for...

Did you know that your brain reacts to stimuli in 50 milliseconds, but that it may take up to 500 milliseconds for conscious awareness to...