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BEYOND TALK THERAPY: You Don’t Have to Talk About “It” to Heal “It!”
Talk therapy absolutely can be beneficial and uses our higher thinking brains. Yet as some point, talk therapy is limited because it is not able to access the lower parts of the brain where we hold stress and trauma responses. Talk therapy alone is often not enough to heal human issues.
In my practice, I offer three types of intervention that are able to access the lower brainstem and middle emotional brain to metabolize stressor and trauma responses: 1) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), 2) Brainspotting, and 3) free-form dance movement.
WHAT Is Going on America? Small Ways We Can All Work to Prevent Violence
I am sick of hearing about mass shootings. I am sick of hearing about black and brown folks being brutalized and killed. I am sick of the media response. I am sick that most of us, do not accept any responsibility in ensuring the happiness and security of not only our family and our friends, but also our community and humanity at large.
Bibliotherapy: The Right Book at the Right Time
I often say, “Everything there is to know, it can be found in a book.” The right book at the right time, can be a powerful complement to therapy.
In My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Manakem, does a deep dive into how racialized trauma impacts white-bodies, black-bodies, and police-bodies. This book offers cognitive history and context for our thinking brains, experiential exercises to explore our emotional and body experiences, and body and breath practices to remember and reclaim our bodies as we move along on our healing journeys.