This week we explore how to work with the manifestations of trauma in your body, and coming out of your head and into your body, and doing what you love as a rich way of healing yourself. 

We talk about different forms of therapy for treating trauma in the body.  Check out Peter Levine, a leading light in trauma therapy and a very nice man.  We talk titratation - releasing trauma responses bit by bit - and pendulation - moving back and forth between resourced experiences and touching on traumatised parts of yourself in a manageable way. We wang on about yoga, societal bamboozlement and addiction and our stand-up comedy nightmares. 

Reminder: Trauma is not who you are. It is possible to heal, and it can be a lot quicker than you think.

NOTE we mention Bruce Lyons. We meant Bruce Lipton https://www.brucelipton.com/

Trigger warning: we discuss different forms of abuse and manipulation in this podcast. If you may be triggered by these topics, please make sure you have support or resources in place before you listen. The opinions we express here are based on subjective personal experience. You can also expect a bit of swearing.

Email us at pastimperfectpodcast@gmail.com with comments and questions.

Resources:  There are so many resources this week, you might need to look back to last week for some of them, so we can fit the new ones in. 

Elizabeth Gilbert  https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/ and a video of her in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzH7I4usKeE 

Somatic Experiencing - a therapeutic modality to help you feel yourself in your body. Here's an interview with its creator, Peter Levine: https://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/interview-peter-levine  

TRE https://traumaprevention.com/what-is-tre/

EMDR: https://www.psycom.net/emdr-therapy-anxiety-panic-ptsd-trauma/

EFT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_Freedom_Techniques

Amanda Garcia: Socio-emotional release (works in English and Spanish) https://www.aurigas.org/welcome-1/online-sessions/

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy. It's useful for challening unhelpful beliefs. According to Bessel Van Der Kolk, its efficacy is limited for PTSD. It works well on the symptoms but doesn't fully address the cause. 

Bruce Parry on ayahuasca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APky-ukvRtM

Elise Parsons, Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems Practitioner https://www.bodhiwork.com/

Five Rhythms https://www.5rhythms.com/ and Open Floor https://openfloor.org dance

Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Program by Melanie Tonia Evans. Sign up for her Gold Membership narcissistic abuse recovery program here https://bit.ly/3g5g0gl

Music: New Dawn by Ruth Blake. Listen to her music at www.ruthblake.com

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