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- Discover how to create balance in trauma sensitivity to validate a client’s experience without overemphasizing their trauma, which can obscure their inner strength.
- Learn practices for cultivating a grounded approach that challenges clients while providing support.
- Explore the pros and cons of the mainstream attention on trauma, and its impact on psychotherapy practice.
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Thank you for pursuing a more balanced approach. As someone who has awakened to intergenerational trauma, and who aims to be a cycle breaker, I was reminded during your presentation of the intergeneration resilience running through my family line. Though I knew this before, I had not taken the time to truly focus on it or to name it. Now mostly due to your presentaion, and also another in this series, I do, and I am thankful. This is something which will benefit my children and their children as we move towards better emotional and familial health.
I want to thank you for sharing the practices found them rewarding.
I’ve done the Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness training and found it really valuable. It was lovely today to be led through the Hand/Fist practice again. I use it as a resourcing exercise in my work as a Meditation teacher and I loved the 5% question to ask yourself afterwards.
I recommend Kiloby Inquiry…it goes to the root of suffering as working with trauma. It answers the questions about how to find a way to work with trauma in the certain way the the speaker presents.
What a wise, caring and open-hearted conversation–I so enjoyed watching these two skilled people have insights and nuanced discoveries about this important topic, coming to those insights and discoveries together. What a privilege to experience this. Thank you!
I think it’s important to be extremely careful around minimizing the impact of severe trauma. As someone who has experienced gang-rape/attempted murder, the idea that a therapist would focus on my resilience angers me. Yes, it happened. But from a “resilience” point of view, I finished 2 master’s degrees and a PhD after that, ran 6 college programs for 40 years, raised a healthy daughter–etc. THAT’s resilience–and yet, I still suffer tremendously from the shame and pain of the trauma. I HATE the word “resilience” because too often it simply means “forget it and move on” which has been said to me more than once. If a therapist started talking to me about “resilience,” I would understand that the person had NO IDEA what severe trauma is like, how people move on with their lives and YET are also stuck in it, and need their experience witnessed and validated, rather than focusing on resilience. I’ve DONE resilience. What I need is HEALING.
I’m so very sorry that you have gone through so very much pain and suffering and loss and you were feeling unseen by this exercise and by your various therapists.
Various people need various approaches and although I do feel better hearing that I can somehow find resilience beyond the resilience of just going on in the face of my trials glaring at me so is heartening at times and not others so I feel that too sometimes.
I was a victim of physical abuse and sexual abuse and physical and emotional neglect and I developed DID and a host of other illnesses that stem from trauma.
I need to hear I can somehow find some resilience in me because I am 59 and have no diploma and no real work history (15 months in total). I have however survived three different types of cancers so far. It’s been a rough ten years upon a life of lack. I am cared for by a precious family of my own. But I had to abandon my family of origin to survive. I started the healing process at age 35. It’s not over till you die I think. I am getting better but there will be no end in sight for me and I suppose it will be the same for you too. I need to hear about resilience right now. It’s the right time for me to hear it. It will not be the right message for everyone. We are not one size fits all.
Best wishes.
Forest.
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It’s so great to see you again Dr. Treleaven! Thank you so much for such resource and artful conversation. For the reminder that presence and compassion and the artful dance of resourcing can be so skillful and useful when working with clients..
Thank you both for your honesty and openness!!