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Explore the following suggestions to see what resonates with you. I personally had the most success with the following. See description below my story and click on any of the ‘Find a practioner’ links if one of these therapies interests you.

My Work:

    • The Meadows Childhood Trauma Intensive (bottom of this page). This was the first time in my life I felt like I mattered. We even had a sex therapist from the Meadows in the class with us and she had a lot of trauma come up, just as much as the rest of us. Everyone can benefit. This is a 5 day intensive with a private group of just 5 people and will help you to explore and heal your childhood trauma in a loving setting. You will also learn how to do chair therapy in this intensive.

    • EMDR & Brainspotting – I did 2 sessions of EMDR, but the therapist was too interested in telling me how to live my life, including never talking to my twin again. I left her for a Brainspotting therapist who I did 16 sessions with. This completely cured my anxiety. She never told me to stay or leave my twin. She allowed me to make that decision on my own. She focused on helping me process the triggers I was feeling from his actions. This is vital in a trauma therapist. Make sure they are this type of therapist before spending your money.

    • Completion Process – I did two sessions of this with a practitioner in Peru through zoom. She helped me release the chain around my chest that had been placed there by my mother. This cord cutting session helped so much. She also began my journey to dealing with my coping mechanisms.

    • Plant medicine – I went for seven days to beautiful Costa Rica at a place named Soltara – linked below. This changed my life, but I’m not sure I would have been ready for it without doing the work listed above. There were others there who did not experience what I did because they were at the beginning stages of healing. Either way, it will benefit you, but if you are going to have high expectations of it, try some other baby steps first.

TRAUMA-HEALING THERAPIES

    • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
        • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.  Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal.  EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.  When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound.  If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain.  Once the block is removed, healing resumes.  EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes.  The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health.  If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering.  Once the block is removed, healing resumes.  Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.

    • Somatic Experiencing
        • Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is a body-oriented therapeutic model applied in multiple professions and professional settings—psychotherapy, medicine, coaching, teaching, and physical therapy—for healing trauma and other stress disorders. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics and has been clinically applied for more than four decades. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine. The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. SE provides effective skills appropriate to a variety of healing professions including mental health, medicine, physical and occupational therapies, bodywork, addiction treatment, first response, education, and others.

    • Brainspotting
        • Brainspotting therapy works for everyone. Brainspotting gives the therapist access to both the brain and body. The goal is to bypass the conscious thinking processes of the neo-cortex to get to the deeper more emotional and body-based processes from the sub-cortex part of the brain. Brainspotting can be the primary mode of treatment or it can be integrated in with the expertise that is already being provided.  

    • Completion Process by Teal Swan
        • The Completion Process is a comprehensive approach to healing core traumas that recur as emotional triggers that prevent us from living empowered lives free of fear. The Completion Process is an 18 step visualization that walks you through an emotional trigger following the emotion to the earliest memory, then resolving the child’s needs through both the mental visualization of resolution and providing awareness through the adult perspective of the events that occurred.

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