Category: trauma

• 1st Oct 2024

  Aspecting Work and Autodrama

  

  In my work with individuals and couples where there is relational trauma, I use somatic healing that employs several embodied, experiential processes for working with relational trauma, addiction, and abusive or adverse experiences that happen across the lifespan from in-utero, through childhood, into adulthood – usually through our relationships with significant others relative to those…
• 25th Jun 2023

  Trauma Work

  

  Firstly, in order to heal, you have to leave the environment where the trauma is happening. As long as you keep moving in this field, you suppress many aspects of the trauma and pain, and this also suppresses the healing. Due to our defence mechanisms, we often don’t realise the extent of the pain until…
• 25th Apr 2023

  ACA & Al-Anon 12-Step Groups

  

  I was recently at an ACA meeting, which stands for Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families, where one member wondered why it had taken so many years of therapy for a therapist to tell them that they were an ‘adult child’. Some people like labels and find them useful and others don’t, so most…
• 10th Feb 2023

  2-person trauma healing

  

  Many couples who have each experienced trauma, especially in their childhoods and subsequent adult relationships bring their own unhealthy coping methods into the partnership, which creates chaos, confusion and conflict. In their separate attempts to manage their individual pain they can create more hurt in their relationship – thereby substituting one painful problem for another.…