LegalNoodle ANCHORED: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana Please click through the links and buy this book: Anchored by Deb Dana so that she will make a buck and Amazon will donate part of your purchase to my favorite charity, the California Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons. My…
Gay Havasu Sex Offender Jeff Cowan has no moral authority to discuss God punishing criminals. Does God punish Lake Havasu City Arizona gay sex criminals like Jeff Cowan for indecent exposure to Sheriff’s Deputies? In his August 3, 2020 Facebook post, registered Level 1 sex offender Jeffrey Robert Cowan posted words to the effect that…
Adverse Childhood Experiences Will Create Adversarial Children. BOOK REVIEW NUMBER TWO: In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction, by Gabor Mate, M.D. Adverse Childhood Experiences greatly increase the risk of the early initiation into drinking beer and smoking marijuana. Our caretakers create our adult stress regulation apparatus “A child’s capacity to handle…
No External Remedy BOOK REVIEW: In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction, by Gabor Mate, M.D. No external remedy improves our condition without, at the same time, making it worse. When the brain is diseased, the functions that become pathological are the person’s emotional life, thought processes, and behavior. And this…
Trauma victims are constantly seeking a sense of safety. In his 2014 bestseller, The Body Keeps the Score, Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk predicts that we will become a trauma conscious society. I think Dr. van der Kolk has been proven correct in his prediction. Trauma…
There has been a miracle of pain healing in my life as a result of writing these blogs about healing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with eye movement desensitizing and reprocessing. (EMDR). The key to this method is to meditate the broken parts and integrate them into a newly purified whole. MENTAL MIRACLE OF PAIN HEALING…
When the patient’s internal landscape manifests critical mass of Self, the therapist steps aside. The Body Keeps the Score, (2014) by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Chapter 17 Page 286 Internal Landscape: “The second assumption is that, rather than being a passive observer, this mindful Self can help reorganize the inner system and communicate with…
The Body Keeps the Score, (2014) by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., CHAPTER 17 – PUTTING THE PIECES BACK TOGETHER: SELF-LEADERSHIP, page 284: “The critical insight is that all these parts have a function: To protect the self from feeling the full terror of annihilation. The final stage of healing is developing self-leadership skills to manage the…
