Promote Health and Wellness by Activating the Brain~Body Connection for Healing
Do you sometimes seem stuck in vicious cycles of physical pain, trauma, anxiety or depression? Have you ever wondered why your symptoms resist traditional treatment approaches? Traumatic stress is the number one source of chronic pain, creating anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, musculoskeletal pain, and other illnesses. Understanding how Read More
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
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
Unresolved stressors and trauma can cause dysregulation and affect these bodily systems, causing not only pain, discomfort, sleep difficulties and such, but may even create disease. There is much research and scientific literature on the benefits of meditation, breathing exercises, yoga, herbal remedies, and the like. All these may help, but Read More
The Unification Project™ is about gathering health professionals across many disciplines together to share evidence-based, reproducible truths in disease and human suffering with the goal of forming a common approach to diagnosis and treatment. Current research indicates that the perceived positive results of decades of medical and alternative therapies may Read More
When we experience a stressful or traumatic event, whether it is emotional or physical, our nervous system automatically goes into a response. The most recognized reactions are fight or flight. In the fight or flight response the body prepares itself for what it believes to be a life-threatening event by Read More
The healing arts and sciences in medicine and alternative practice are filled with numerous diagnoses, treatments and theories. When subjected to closer inspection it becomes shockingly clear that the diagnoses, treatments and perceived results of these practices are often based on the doctor’s and therapist’s individual and collective beliefs, and Read More
Heal Trauma Save The World Project™ is about ending the cyclical nature of trauma. Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) is most destructive when passed down from person to person, and through families and institutions. Like a virus, the unconscious carriers can be you and me. Repeating patterns of PTS behavior can represent Read More