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Sympathetic Activation. My heart is racing, as his yelling becomes a faint echo in the distance. I watch my body open the door and walk out to the street. I scan the street for anyone that might want to talk to me. I don’t have time to talk. I don’t have energy, I am agitated, sweating, and frantic. I can hardly feel my body, I get in my car and begin driving quickly, aggressively, everyone is an object in my way. Dorsal Vagal Shutdown. I slowly open my eyes, with every ounce

Preview : 4 F types What are the 4F types? Complex PTSD expert and psychotherapist Pete Walker coined the term F types. These terms describe the different trauma responses that the body will use as an adaptation to survive when under severe amounts of threat or continual stress triggers. Looking at humans as mammals, they have natural responses to threat, which will usually manifest as the instinct to run from or fight the threat. However, given social conditioning, often we

Practical applications for healing trauma PREVIEW : for full artilce follow the link below Understanding Somatics What is somatics? Soma- means body somatic’s means relating to the body. So what we are talking about here is through a somatic lens; all in relation to the body. Our body, is our gateway to experience life. Many people view the brain as being separate from the body. This is not the case, and brain tissue and nervous tissue are what create our conscious experience

The anatomy of language and the alchemy of shame Many of us live our lives through a glass window, we show up fine, and yet deep inside we are operating out of patterns of shame, and separated from our truth. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The spell of shame We don’t always know where this shame comes from. It’s almost as if it’s the water we swim in. From a very young age we are given messaging about what will earn us love, w