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Category Archives: Trauma
revealing the trauma of war
Excellent article in National Geographic about application of very simple, powerful approach of encouraging vets to make and paint masks as a way to express their pain, their woundedness. As one says… “I THOUGHT THIS WAS A JOKE, I wanted … Continue reading
What does “trauma informed” really mean?
Trauma does not mean “that shit that happened”. Trauma means “wound”. Trauma is the effect left within us. The essential experience of that effect- “trauma” – is being left feeling disempowered and disconnected . That’s the nature of wound. Thorns … Continue reading
Why did I go Mad?
BBC Horizon documentary aired in UK on 2nd May, 2017. Why Did I Go Mad? It starts us off in familiar territory, deep within the orthodox belief – the story that that people who hear voices have a thing … Continue reading
Posted in Difference and Diversity, Healing, hearing voices, skin I'm in, Trauma, Trauma
Tagged hearing voices, mad
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What’s it like round here?
Seth Godin often pops something into my inbox that shows me a way to say something I’m struggling to find a way to say and to share… Community standards “What’s it like around here?” It’s a fair question to ask … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Healing, Learning, Trauma
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Understanding Trauma – Peter Levine and his Slinky
Peter Levine’s work unlocks our understanding of how trauma works within us – and how we can heal ourselves and find ways to support others in their healing, In this short [6min] clip he uses a slinky to demonstrate how … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas, Learning, Trauma
Tagged Peter Levine, Slinky, Trauma
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likely the effects of a particularly powerful psychological trauma…
“may well be the effects of particularly powerful psychological trauma” These are the words of Eugene Bleuler when he first coined the term “schizophrenia” as a way of naming and understanding what he had been observing in patients in his … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Trauma
Tagged Eugene Bleuer, Healing, Psychological trauma, Thorns in the spirit, William James, wounded soul
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Thorns in the spirit…
Trauma means Wound The word “trauma” means “wound”. Trauma is not the thing that happened but the effect left within us by our experiences of what happened. It can, though leave us experiencing life as if the thing that did … Continue reading
Trauma is not the thing that happened…
Trauma is not the thing that happened but, in fact, the effect left within us by our experiences
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Trauma means Wound
Trauma means “wound”.
That’s it, no shit. Continue reading
A person given a diagnosis of “psychosis” is 15 times more likely to …
Wonder how the “voice inside your head” finished off that sentence… Some straight talking… Here’s some data: A person who has been given a diagnosis of psychosis is three times more likely to have been abused as a child than … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Crazy World, making sense of "mental illlness", mental illness? or..., psychosis, Trauma
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