by Steve Haines | Aug 29, 2022 | Trauma
The body is central to understanding what trauma is and how we should deal with it. In this blog I discuss how to work with the body to help to resolve the effects of early, childhood trauma. This is taken from a recent podcast interview I did called Living With... by Steve Haines | Aug 17, 2022 | Touch
Whether you’re personally working to release and heal trauma within you, or you’re a practitioner helping your clients to work through trauma, touch is an incredibly powerful and simple tool. I recently had a fascinating conversation with my long-time colleague Jane... by Steve Haines | Jul 18, 2022 | Feeling, Therapy, Touch, Trauma, TRE
There is a moment in The Work at about 20 minutes. Two men are standing eye ball to eye ball. They are in a group of other men standing in a circle around them. You are aware of the noise of other circles of other men. The stillness and the intensity between the two... by Steve Haines | Jun 30, 2022 | Touch
Touch in manual therapy does not work in the way most people think it does. Evidence increasingly shows there are clear limits to our ability to diagnose and treat structural issues by focusing on local tissue dynamics. We can however negotiate ‘affective touch’ to... by Steve Haines | May 12, 2022 | Trauma
When trying to recover from overwhelming experiences it can be helpful to understand how memory works, particularly how memories are related to feelings in the body. Memory is a complex perception. In this blog I’ll explore how memory works and why it can get confused...