Healing Trauma: Complex PTSD and Somatics
This course will teach you how to understand trauma inside of the nervous system, the impacts of complex PTSD, and provide practical tools and ways to work with folks with trauma.
Welcome to the Course!
FREE PREVIEWSomatic Exercise: Orient to Safety
Welcome!
Course Manual
Trauma Defined
Trauma Vortex
Differences Between c-PTSD & PTSD
Types of Therapies
Questions to Ask Therapists
Adult Onset c-PTSD and Childhood c-PTSD
Exercise: Somatic Hug
Exercise: Feet, Seat, (Heart), Eyes
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris
Intro
How the Nervous System Forms
Neuroception
Other Symptoms
Window of Tolerance
Exercise: Feel the Body
Intro
Quick Notes
Exercise: Box Breathing
Intro
Polyvagal Quickie
Ventral Vagal
Sympathetic
Dorsal Vagal
Exercise: Follow the Impulse
Download: Polyvagal Ladder
Intro
Co-Regulation is the Secret Sauce
“The mix of the life experience, theory and practical skills. This is rare gem of training and perhaps one of the top three best trainings I've taken in my twenty five years working front line. ”
Webinar Attendee, HSABC, ,“Hearing lived experience combined with information about nervous system and trauma was very powerful.”
Webinar Attendee, HSABC“Great combination of shared lived experience with practical exercises and theory. Compassionate and wise. ”
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Anonymous, In Person Workshop Participant“I loved the exercises incorporated to help stay engaged and grounded. The diagrams were very helpful. Your honesty of what you were experiencing in the moment was refreshing and authentic. ”
Sharonne“Great mix of research, professional and lived experience. Extremely valuable to speak about the challenges of treating c-PTSD. ”
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