Trauma is Really Strange

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It reminds us, reminded me, that it's not my fault I'm in pain and that it isn't something I've made up either - rather that it's a genuine condition that doesn't mean I'm broken but is simply an 'injury' itself that can be overcome. With wonderful artwork, cat and mouse metaphors, essential scientific facts, and a healthy dose of wit, the narrator reveals how trauma resolution involves changing the body's physiology and describes techniques that can achieve this, including Trauma Releasing Exercises that allow the body to shake away tension, safely releasing deep muscular patterns of stress and trauma. One of the core themes is that being aware of habitual survival gestures can help us become more resilient. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. However, after reading this small book I'm more confused than before but at the same time intrigued and excited to understand more on how pain works and how neuroplasticity helps in relieving it.

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This podcast will introduce some models, rooted in science, that have helped many people shift their anxiety experience.I haven’t been sure how to feel about the characterization of this experience, so I turned to this little comic I bought years ago for some facts. I was really looking forward to reading one of Haines' books to see how complex psychological theories can be explained in a comic book style. La manera en la que se describen los funcionamientos cerebrales para quienes no tenemos conocimientos médicos, las referencias, los mecanismos y la manera en la que podemos romperlos y generar nuevos me pareció muy acertada. The first hour is an interactive talk on anxiety based on webinar given by Steve Haines – author of Anxiety is Really Strange, ‘Highly Commended’ by the British Medical Association.

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Trauma is Really Strange' by Steve Haines, with illustrations by Sophie Standing is the kind of graphic novel, you might overlook, but what is does in it's short 32 pages is pretty amazing.Rather than dwell on the causes or the past, the book offers techniques that are used to get patients through it. Another big shift in me occurred at this time, from hopeful versions of eastern philosophy and energy models, to seeking an evidence base and asking ‘Can you prove that? This book is actually a 30-page ecomic/handbook that relates information through traditional comicbook cells (usually progressive horizontal rectangles) with non-traditional animation. His treatments use movement, education, embodied awareness, and slow touch to help people move more freely and be more present. The model offered here is that inherent within you is the ability to switch off over-reactive protective reflexes.

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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-03-11 04:41:58 Associated-names Standing, Sophie, illustrator Autocrop_version 0. My worldview has been deeply informed by the AIDs epidemic and the activism that emerged in the 80’s and 90’s and continues to this day. Every permutation of trauma, from "mere" overwhelm to single-event disaster, to complex and developmental trauma, is addressed. Appreciating the hidden stories and protective reflexes working hard to protect you can transformative for many people. I appreciate it must be tricky getting complex ideas across effectively in this way, but I still think some of the language was overcomplicated and could've been simplified further.

By the end, it makes it sound like we’re all built to overcome trauma and we’re not trying hard enough if we fail to overcome it. Also, I felt a little stressed at trauma being defined as 'that which overwhelms' since I am overwhelmed much of the time, and so dissociation is a part of my life and not something I am ever in permanent recovery from.