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Tag 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
Still Trying – Nathaniel Rateliff
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know a goddamn thing Continue reading
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Tagged Trauma, wounded soul, woundedness
Canadian judge rules in favor of forcibly adopted First Nations survivors
Government is responsible for trauma of 16,000 indigenous children removed from families between 1965 and 1984, judge said. Continue reading
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Tagged indigenous, residential schools, Trauma
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
Disempowered and disconnected
The core experience of trauma is feeling disconnected and disempowered.
Ironic then, that so often our approach to mental health and the systems we build leave people feeling disconnected and disempowered. Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, sh!t is f#cked
Tagged disconnected, disempowered, Healing, Trauma
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 long, complex and stubborn history with trauma
Bessel van der Kolk at bigthink.org offers a potted history of psychiatry and society’s difficult relationship with trauma. Psychiatry started as study of what were then deemed bizarre behaviours, but discovered they were understandable when considered in context with extraordinary … Continue reading
The most difficult and traumatic memories…
The most difficult and traumatic memories re stored in non-verbal, bodily memory.
Bessell Van Der Kolk Continue reading
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