Body-Based Activities to Regulate, Rebalance, and Rewire Your Nervous System Without Reliving Your Trauma “In The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma, Arielle Schwartz gives you practical, embodied tools along with compassionate guidance to support your healing journey. She makes the complexity
A Mind-Body Approach to Care Traumatic events can leave you feeling broken or disconnected. In order to survive, we often disconnect from painful emotions and bodily sensations. Our brain plays a key role in this process. When you feel disconnected
Supporting your Growth According to Hebb’s law, what fires together, wires together. Whatever you repeatedly think, feel, and sense builds new or strengthens existing patterns of neural connections in the brain. The science of neuroplasticity teaches us that our brains
Mindful body awareness awakens you to your inner world…this sensory interior is scientifically referred to as interoception. This key to wellbeing invites you to pay attention to your felt sense. As you get to know the territory of your inner
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Trauma recovery is as much about healing the body as it is the mind. Yet, so often, the focus of healing involves retelling the story of the past without addressing
Ego States, Dissociative Symptoms, and Parts Work Therapies Do you ever feel as though only some of your emotions or needs are acceptable? Do you push away parts of yourself that you do not want others to see? In truth,
A Compassionate Approach to Care In trauma treatment, we are looping our consciousness around places in our psyches and in our bodies that hold unprocessed sensations, emotions, images, and thoughts. Like dusting off old furniture or opening boxes that were
Traumatic Stress Reactions During and after traumatic events, it is common to experience feelings of confusion, sadness, fear, anxiety, panic, irritability, agitation, anger, and despair. It is also common to experience physical symptoms such as a rapid heart rate, sweating,
