Promote Health and Wellness by Activating the Brain~Body Connection for Healing
Are you in the Zone? Unresolved stressors and trauma can cause dysregulation and affect all bodily systems, causing not only pain, discomfort, sleep difficulties and such, but may even create a variety of pain disorders, anxiety, depression and even disease. The Zone of Regulation, also called the Window Read More
Dr. Levine: When I first started developing my approach to trauma – and this was in the sixties and seventies, so it was way before the definition of trauma as PTSD – I noticed how many different kinds of sometimes even seemingly ordinary events could cause people to develop symptoms Read More
One of the things that I am learning firsthand is how our nervous system is in the course of our day. Many of the things that I write about here are ones that I have been introduced to and then I learn about them by living through experiences that become Read More
Sometimes people can remember what seem like the smallest, most insignificant details of their lives – their 8th grade locker combination, a story they heard at a party years ago, or all the lines from their favorite movie. These memories – full of facts, words, and events – are explicit Read More
The Cumulative Effects of an Unbalanced System Unfortunately, our nervous systems have not yet adapted to the type of ongoing stress we face today. As you can imagine, there is a huge difference between the constant stress of 21st century life and our ancestor’s sudden need to flee from danger. Read More