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10. Adaptations to Trauma
Adaptations to Trauma is part ten of my fourteen part commentary and synopsis The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, and most of this post is a verbatim reprint thereof. Adaptations to trauma can be so severe that health-care providers and patients often believe that full recovery is beyond reach. I was…
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8 & 9. Alexithymia and EMDR
Here are parts eight and nine of my thirteen part commentary and synopsis of the master piece by Bessel van der Kolk. Much of this post is a verbatim reprint from The Body Keeps The Score. One in ten people have alexithymia, problems feeling and expressing emotions. The Greek word alexithymia means “no words for…
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7. Communication
Traumatic events are difficult to express. We need someone we can express our feelings to because communication is the opposite of trauma. Here is part seven of my commentary and synopsis of The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. 1. INTRODUCTION: Childhood Trauma Causes Addiction 2. 12 Steps & 12 Traditions: Damaging…
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6. Healing Childhood Trauma
Practicing mindfulness calms down the localized reflexive nervous system so that we are less likely to be thrown into fight, flight, freeze, or fuck. What were you thinking right before you threw yourself into a dry drunk? What was going on inside your mind right before you acted out your emotional trauma?
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5. Emotional Perception
The scientific term for self-awareness is interoception. This is part five of my commentary and synopsis of The Body Keeps the Score, Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk. 1. INTRODUCTION: Childhood Trauma Causes Addiction 2. 12 Steps & 12 Traditions: Damaging Emotional Conflicts 3. Trauma Damages Left…
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4. Meditation
Theta brain waves indicate the meditative state of consciousness. Biofeedback and meditation is part four of my thirteen part of my commentary and synopsis of The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. 1. INTRODUCTION: Childhood Trauma Causes Addiction 2. 12 Steps & 12 Traditions: Damaging Emotional Conflicts 3. Trauma Damages Left Brain…
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3. The Body Keeps the Trauma
COMMENTARY AND SYNOPSIS: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk and how trauma damages the ability of people to accept the utter transformation of 12 Step recovery at A.A. meetings. Focusing on a shared history of how trauma damages and victimization alleviates the recovering alcoholics searing sense of isolation, but usually at…
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1 & 2 The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk
1. INTRODUCTION: Childhood Trauma Causes Addiction 2. 12 Steps & 12 Traditions: Damaging Emotional Conflicts 3. Trauma Damages Left Brain Speech 4. BIOFEEDBACK: Meditation on Steroids 5. INTEROCEPTION: Traumatic Awareness 6. What Were You Thinking Right Before You Acted Out Your Childhood Trauma? 7. Communication is the Opposite of Trauma 8. ALEXITHYMIA: Inability to Feel…
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When The Student Is Ready, The Teacher Will Appear
I follow many different paths in order to attain the demonstration of enlightened consciousness. Here are some of my main spiritual teachers. This list is alive and constantly growing. These teachers work for me, but maybe not so much for you. Brief Introduction to my main spiritual teachers Christian mystic Joel S. Goldsmith (1892-1964) has…
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The Miracle Is Always Right In Front Of Me
My first introduction To A Course In Miracles was in 2004. When I was in recovery at a dual diagnosis treatment center in Malibu my therapist asked me if I was familiar with ACIM. I said yes, I tried to read ACIM but the material was so dense that I was having difficulty comprehending and…